72 Shyamal Das— The 'Mother of Jahangir. [No. 2, 
Q. 4. Was a sister of Paliar Khan, uncle of Raja Man Singh and 
a brother of Bhag’wan Das, the mother of Jahangir ? 
No. I second the statement of my learned friend Mr. Beveridge, 
that, granting a sister of Paliar Khan was in Akbar’s haram, she was 
not Jahangir’s mother. 
Then, as regards Paliar Khan himself, Raja Bhag’wan Das (of 
Jaipur) had no brother of that name, as none of the eight sons of 
the latter’s father, Raja Bhar* * * § Mall, bore it. Perhaps by the word 
brother , Jahangir meant only a relative; as relatives of the Raj’puts, 
removed even by ten generations, are called brothers. 
Q. 5. Was Jahangir’s mother (a) the daughter or (b) the grand¬ 
daughter of Bhar Mall ? 
(а) Jahangir’s mother was the elder daughter of Raja Bhar Mall 
Kachhwaha of Amber (Jaipur). She had been married to Akbar, ac¬ 
cording to Abu-1-Fazl,f at Sambhar in H. 969 (A. D. 1562). 
Like Abu-1-Fazl, the other Muhammadan authors have, through 
prejudice, omitted the name of this lady in their narrative of Jahangir’s 
birth. 
But Munshi Sujan Rai who is considered a reliable authority by 
the Persian authors, and most likely derived the information relating 
to Jahangir’s birth from the contemporaries of Akbar and Jahangir, 
plainly says in his Khuldsatu-t- Tawdrilch. j: that Jahangir was born of 
the daughter of Raja Bhar Mall Kachliwalia, in H. 977 (A. D. 1570), 
which is also the uniform statement of the Mirdt-i-A'ftdb Numd,§ the 
Siyaru-l-Mutakhirm : \\ and the Tdrikh-i-Hashidu-d-din Khdni.% The 
historians of Raj’putana likewise agree in stating Jahangir to have been 
born of an Amber princess. 
(б) The granddaughter of Bhar Mall (and daughter of Bhag’wan 
Das) was married to prince Jahangir, and their nuptials were celebrated 
with great pomp and splendour by Akbar. Prince Khusrau was the 
result of the union. 
Jahangir writes in his Memoirs that, when this Begam committed 
suicide by swallowing a dose of opium at Allahabad, he married another 
* In the paper tinder discussion the form Bihdri Mall is an error. Trans. 
[What proof is there for this statement ? Ed.] 
t Akbarnama, Yol. II, p. 198. The page in the Bib. Ind. edition is 157. 
X MSS. p. 221. Written in the 40th year of ’Alamgir’s reign H. 1107 (A. D. 
1697). 
§ MSS. p. 216. Written in the 45th year of Shah ’Alam II.’s reign, H. 1225 
(A. D. 1811), by Shah Nawaz Khan Hashimi of Delhi. 
|| Luck. Ed. p. 116. Written in H. 1195 (A. D. 1781) by Munshi Sayyid Gliulam 
Husain. 
p. 71. Hyderabad, 1880 A, D. By Munshi Gliulam Imam Kh an. 
