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interesting particulars from one personally acquainted with her and 
the other personages here named. She was styled Mah Malikah, and 
entitled, Jalal-ud-Dunya wa ud-Din ; and her mother was the daughter 
of Sultan ’Ala-ud-Din, Husain-i-Jahan-soz (No. XIY). She knew the 
Kur’an by heart, knew likewise the Shihabi traditions, and her hand¬ 
writing “ was as pearls befitting a king.” The reason why she passed 
from the world a maid has been already mentioned. The author of the 
Tabakat-i-Nasiri says (p. 392), that, “In beauty, purity, and self- 
restraint, she had no equal in the world,” and adds:—“The mother of 
the writer of these pages was the foster-sister and school-companion 
of this princess ; and this devotee [himself] was brought up in the 
princess’s own hall of favour and her haram of chastity, up to the 
period of his entering upon the bounds of adolescence, in the service 
of her royal dwelling, and her private apartments. The maternal uncles 
of this devotee and his maternal ancestors, were all attached to the 
service of that princess’s Court, and to the Court of her father ; and 
this humble individual [himself] received many proofs of that lady’s 
favour and bounty. God reward her ! At last her martyrdom and 
death took place in the territory of ’Irak during the calamities which 
arose on the irruption of the infidels [the Mughals]. The mercy of the 
Almighty be upon her!” After Sultan Muhammad, the Khvvarazm 
Shah, herein mentioned, had reduced the territories of the Sultans 
of Ghur and Ghaznih under his sway, all except their territories beyond 
the Indus, the members of the different Shansabani families were taken 
to Khwarazm, and the princess was there dwelling, when her last 
betrothed husband—Sultan ’Ala-ud-Din, Muhammad, the Malik-ul-Haji 
and “Pearl of Gliur” reached it. He took up his residence near her ; 
and in the Khwarazm dominions they dwelt for some time, until his 
death about three years after. He was buried adjacent to the tomb of 
the Shaikh Abu-Yazid at Bustam.* The princess had yet to bear 
further vicissitudes of fortune ; but, at last, found rest from the world’s 
troubles, as just related. 
Respecting Coin No. 141, and the “ Beni Zengi Atabegs of Mosil ” 
Badr-ud-Din, Lu-lu, was, certainly, a ruler of Mausil, and exercised 
sway oveb it, but cannot be correctly styled one of the Bani Zangi. They 
were Turks, and their ancestor, entitled the Kasim-ud-Daulah, was 
Ak-Sunkar, but whose name and Musalman titles were, Abu Sa’id-i- 
’Abd-U’llah. He was familiarly known as Baban, the Chamberlain, 
one of the mam-luks or slaves of Sultan Malik Shah, the Saljuk, who 
made him Wall of Halab in 481 H. (1088-89 A. D.). 
Malik Badr-ud-Din, ’Abu-l-Faza’il, Lu-lu, was an Armenian slave, 
# See Tabakat-i-Nasiri, pp. 419-20. 
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