76 H. Beveridge —Remarks on the above paper. [No. 2, 
Sublian Rai. It seems that, as regards the times before his own, this 
writer is a mere plagiarist from Sublian Rai or some other munshi. 
Besides he clearly is not accurate, for he describes the marriage of Bihari 
Mali’s daughter as having taken place after the capture of Chitor, 
whereas it occurred six years previously. 
I still think the silence of all the leading historians remarkable. 
Neither Abu-1-Fazl, nor Nizamu-d-din, nor Badaoni, nor Firishtah nor 
Khafi Khan mentions Bihari Mali’s daughter as Jahangir’s mother. This 
cannot have been the result of bigotry ; for Abu-1-Fazl, at least, was no 
bigot, and he and some of the others mention the marriage of Bihari 
Mall’s daughter with approval. If they approved of the marriage, why 
should they not have approved of its resulting in the birth of a son ? 
They distinctly mention that Bhag’wan Das’ daughter was the mother of 
Khusru. The Mu’asiru-l-Umara, now being printed by the Society, is a 
modern book, but it is an elaborate one, and was highly thought of by 
Professor Blochmann. It has biographies of Bihari Mall and his sons, 
but it nowhere mentions that Bihari Mali’s daughter gave birth to 
J ahangir. 
I have consulted the MS. of the Tawarikh-i-Salim in our library. 
The statement there is exactly as Price (p. 19) translates it, that Jahan¬ 
gir married a daughter of Bihari Mall, and had by her his son Khusru. 
This daughter might possibly be a younger sister of the one who mar¬ 
ried Akbar, but the statement that she was the mother of Khusru is 
certainly wrong. Undoubtedly his mother was the daughter of Bhag’¬ 
wan. As for the passage about Pahar Khan, or Bahadur Khan, as it 
is in our MS., the Kaviraj’s remark, about the lax use of the word 
brother, is irrelevant as the word in the autobiography is uncle and not 
brother. The statement (Price, p. 34) is that Pahar Khan was a digni¬ 
tary of 2000 and the uncle of Raja Man Singh, and that his sister was 
in Akbar’s haram, but no favourite with destiny. A Bahar Khan or 
Bahadur Khan is mentioned in Abu-l-Fazl’s list of Akbar’s grandees. 
He is No. 87, and is described as one of the ghulams or slaves of Hu- 
mayun, so that he may have been originally a Hindu, like I’timad Khan 
of Gujrat, but how he came to be Raja Man Singh’s uncle, I do not 
know. There is a curious statement in the Tawarikh-i-Salim (Price, 
p. 47), that Akbar had a son by Bibi Maryam who was placed under the 
care of Raja Bihari Mall. Could this be the Bibi Maryam about whom 
there seem to be traditions at Fathpur Sikri ? 
The Kaviraj speaks of traditions and of the historians of Raj- 
putana, but Tod and others do not mention any tradition about 
Bihari Mali’s daughter. On the contrary, Tod tells us that the name of 
Bhag’wan Das is execrated in Rajputana, because he was the first who 
