1870.] The Capture and Death of Bard Shikoh. 279 



i5 '+'*»+ J +.* + •+ j + t + 'J* + & + j + * = \ •!* 



100 + 400 + 30 4- 4 + 1 4- 200 + 1 + 300 + 20 + 6 + 5 = 1067, 

 to which uj or 2 is to be added, hence 1069. 



The Mukhbvr id Wdqilin, a collection of Tdrikhs on Muhammadan 

 Saints printed in the beginning of this century at Calcutta, has 

 also the 1st Muharram, 1070, and from it the Ififtdh and the 

 Khazinat id Agfa have evidently copied. But there is no historical 

 evidence for fixing upon the 1st Muharram, 1070, as the day of 

 Dara's execution. Even Khafi Khan's date (29th Zil Hajjah, 1069) 

 is open to doubt, inasmuch as it differs from the date given in the 

 contemporaneous histories the ' ' Alamgirndmah and the Mir-dt ul 

 ^Alam. 



Dara. Shikoh' s wife was a daughter of Prince Parwiz (son of 

 Jahangir) by Jahan Band Begum, daughter of Sultan Murad (son of 

 Akbar). Dara had married her on the 8th Jumada I, 1042. Her 

 name was Nadirah Begum, and according to Khafi Khan, Dara was 

 much attached to her. The disease of which she died is called in 

 the 'Alamgirnamah ckw ; but in Khafi Khan jL^w}. 



Dara's children were (Pddishdhn. II, 101, 337, 388) — 



1. Sidaimdn Shikoh, born 26th Eamazan, 1044. 



2. Ifihr Shilcoh, born in Kabi' I, 1048. Died after 40 days. 



3. Mumtdz Shilcoh, born on the last Jumada I, 1053. 



4. Sipihr Shilcoh, born 15th Sha'ban, 1054. 



a. A daughter, born 29th Kajab, 1043. Died soon after. 



b. Pah Nihdd Bank Begum, born 29th Jumada I, 1051. 



c. Jahdn Zih Bdnu Begum (married subsequently Muhammad 

 A'zam). 



Sidaimdn Shikoh married in 1065 a daughter of Rajah Graj Singh, 

 Khafi Khan, p. 730. His daughter, Salimah Band Begum, mar- 

 ried Prince Muhammad Akbar, Aurangzib's fourth son. Their 

 offspring was Nekusiyar, who was proclaimed emperor at A'grah, 

 but imprisoned by Pafi'uddaulah. 



Sipihr Shikoh married Zubdatunnissa Begum, Aurangzib's fourth 

 daughter. Their son, 'All Tabar, was born on the 12th Jumada I, 

 1087, and died in the end of 1088 (Iladsir i 'A'lamgiri, pp. 125, 160 ) 



