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(a.) Gulrang Begum ; (b.) Gulchihrah Begum ; (c.) Gulbadan 

 JBegum. These three were by the same mother. One of them was 

 married to Mirza Yadgar, who was put to death for treason. Stewart 

 says that Dildar Begum was the mother of No. 4. 



The Tuzuh (p. 113) and the Iqbdlndmah (p. 68) mention a fourth 

 daughter of Babar, Gulrukh Begum, who was married to Mirza 

 Nuruddin Muhammad ; her daughter Salimah Sultan Begum will be 

 mentioned among Akbar's wives. 



VII. Naci'ruddi'n Muhammad Huma'yu'n. 



Title after death, Jannat dshydni (in some MSS. jannatastdni). Born, 

 Monday night, 4th Zi Qa'dah 913,* at Ark in Kabul . His mother 

 was Mahum Begum, a relation of Sultan Husain Mirza. Julus, 9th 

 Jumada I, 937, at &grah. Leaves India after the battle of Kanauj 

 (10th Muharram 947), remains in exile 5 y., 5 m., 15 d. ; takes 

 Qandahar, on the 25th Jumada II, 952 ; takes Kabul, on Tuesday 

 night, 12th Ramazan 952 ; takes Badakhshan in the beginning of 953 ; 

 •invades Hindustan from Kabul, in the middle of Zi Hajjah 961 ; 

 arrives at Lahor on the 2nd Rabi' II, 962, and at Sarhind, on the 

 7th Rajab 962 ; defeats Ahmad (Sikandar Stir) on the 2nd Sha'ban 

 962 ; and takes possession of Dikli, on Sunday, 4th Ramazan, 962. 

 He died in Rabi' I, 963, from a fall from the staircase leading to the 

 i-oof of his library. Khafi Khan (p. 124), says he fell on the 5th 

 Rabi' I ; Farishtah and Badaoni (I, p. 465) say, he fell on the 7th. 

 According to Khafi Khan, Farishtah, and Stewart (p. 120), Humayun 

 died on the 11th Rabi' I ; according to Badaoni, on the 15th ; accord- 

 ing to the Padishahnamah (p. 65), on Sunday the 13th ; according 

 to the Mir-at, on the 7th ; and according to the Akbarnamah ' on 

 the Friday of Rabi' I.' 



Khafi Khan (I, p. 126), represents Humayun as a Hanafi Sunni ; 

 but he says that he possessed a greater love for the alii i bait (Hasan, 

 Husain, &c.,) than his ancestors, especially more than Amir Timiir.f 

 Regarding Humayun's religion, vide Farishtah and Badaoni. Humay tin's 

 soldiers and many of his grandees (as Bairam Khan, &c.,) were Shi'ahs, 



* So in the Akbarnamah, and, according to Stewart, in Babar's Memoirs. 

 The Pddishdhndmah (I, p. 63, 1. 7), has the 14th, not the 4th. 



t Sunnis with slight Shi' ah tendencies are called <s -^.^- ftJ tafztliyah. That 

 Timur was no Shi'ah is clear from the name which he gave his second son 

 'UmwrJ, 



