1870.] The Capture and Death of Bar a. Shikoh. 279 



i5+e»+J+a + i + j + I + J^ + ^) + j -f »=.fiv 



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

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



The Mukhbir ul Wdgilin, 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 Miftdh and the 

 Khazinat ul 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 -at ul 

 y 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 Nadir ah Begum, and according to Khafi Khan, Dara was 

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

 the 'Alamgirnamah <JU» ; but in Khafi Khan J^l.. 



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



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



2. Mihr Shikoh, born in Eabi' I, 1048. Died after 40 days. 



3. Mumtaz Shikoh, born on the last Jumada I, 1053. 



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



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



h. Pdk Nihdd Bank Begum, born 29th Jumada I, 1051. 



c. Jahdn Zil Bdnu Begum (married subsequently Muhammad 

 A'zam). 



Sulaimdn Shikoh married in 1065 a daughter of Pajah Gaj Singh, 

 Khafi Khdn, 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 Agrah, 

 but imprisoned by Eafi'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 {Mansir i ' Alamgiri, pp. 125, 160 ) 



