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X. Shiha'buddi'n Muhammad Sha'hjaha'n. 



Title, Qahibqirdn i sdni. Title after death, Firdaus Ashydni. Born 

 at Labor, 30th Babi' I, 1000 A. H * Historians make much of the 

 time of his birth (end of the Millennium), and his first acts on his 

 accession justified people to look upon him as the mujaddid i din i 

 muMn, the restorer of Islam.f Julus, 8th Jumada II, 1037. J 

 He had eight sons and six daughters : — (1.) Sultan Muhammad 

 Dara Shikoh, born at Ajmir, Monday night, 29th ffafar 1024. 

 (2.) Muhammad Shah Shuja' Bahadur, born at Ajmir, Satur- 

 day night, 18th Jumada IT, 1025. (3.) Muhammad Aurangzeb, 

 born on Saturday night, 15th Zi Qa'dah, 1027. (4 ) Ummed Bakhsh, 

 born near Sarhind, Wednesday, 11th Muharram, 1029. He died at 

 Burhanpur, in Babi' II, 1031. (5.) A son who died before he had re- 

 ceived a name, born 1032. (6.) Murad Bakhsh, bom at Bahtas, 

 Tuesday night, 25th Zi Hajjah, 1033. (7.) Lutfullah, born Tuesday 

 night, 14th fafar, 1036. Died 9th Bamazan, 1037. (8.) Daulatafza, 

 born Tuesday night, 4th Bamazan, 1037. Died 20th Bamazan, 1038. 

 (a.) Hurunnisa Begum, born at Agrah on Wednesday, 8th f afar, 



1022. Died at Ajmir, 4th Babi' II, 1025. (6.) Jahan Ara Begum, 

 who had the title of Mustatab Begum, born Wednesday, 21st pafar, 



1023. (<?.) Baushan Bai Begum, bom at Burhanpur, 2nd Bamazan, 

 1026, (d.) Surayya. Banu Begum, died in the night before 20th 

 Rajah, 1030 ; died on the 23rd Sha'ban, 1037. (e.) A daughter, 

 born 10th Bamazan 1039 ; she died soon after birth, (f.) Gauhar Ara 

 Begum, born at Burhanpur, Tuesday night 17th, Zi Qa'dah, 1040. 



The concluding dates of the reigns of Shahjahan and his Descend- 

 ants, will form the subject of the next paper. — 



The President then exhibited three maps of the Sundarban. 



The President said — It will be in the recollection of the members 

 that some months since, an interesting paper on the Sundarban 

 had been laid before them by Mr. Bainey, and that in the discussion 

 which followed the reading of that paper, the Bev. Mr. Long 

 had stated that he had during a visit to the Imperial Library in Paris, 

 seen there a very old Portuguese map of the tract in question. Mr. 

 Bainey was struck with the interest attaching to such old records, 



* The Tuzuk says 999. f Vide Proceedings for July, p. 192. J Khafi 

 Khan has 7th Jumada II. 



