[29] Daughter of Nūr Jahān. [↑]
[30] Blochmann, p. 311, calls her Arzānī Begam. The Iqbāl-nāma (306) calls her Lāṛdilī Begam. A MS. of the Iqbāl-nāma in my possession calls her Walī Begam. She was born on September 4, 1623. [↑]
[31] The holy man formerly mentioned. [↑]
[32] He had been captured in Gujarat when Ṣafī K. defeated ʿAbdu-llah. [↑]
[33] The author of the dictionary. [↑]
[34] See Maʾās̤iru-l-Umarā, III. 382. His wife was the sister of Aḥmad Beg, the brother’s son of Ibrāhīm K. Fatḥ-jang. But if so would she not be the daughter of S͟harīf and niece of Nūr Jahān? See Blochmann, 512. [↑]
[35] I.O. MS., 381, and the Iqbāl-nāma mention the wife. [↑]
[36] Maḥram sāk͟ht, “made him one who could enter the Harem.” [↑]
[37] The text wrongly has ba-chand instead of ba-jambīd. [↑]