The Rashīdī History 179: CHAPTER LXII. · DAULAT SULTAN KHANIM, DAUGHTER OF YUNUS KHAN, COMES FROM BADAKHSHAN TO KASHGHAR.

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I HAVE mentioned above, in enumerating the offspring of Yunus Khan, that the youngest of all was Daulat Sultan Khanim. At the devastation of Tashkand, she fell into the hands of Timur Sultan, son of Shahi Beg Khan, and remained in his haram till Babar Padishah captured Samarkand, when she joined the Padishah. With the departure of the latter for Kabul, she separated from her nephew and went to Mirza Khan, who was also her nephew, and remained [with him] in Badakhshan. Mirza Khan treated her as his own mother. On the Khan's return from Aksu, he sent for her; Daulat Sultan Khanim being his paternal aunt. The messengers bore her gifts from the Khan in the shape of horses, vessels of gold and silver and fine cloths. While the Khan was away on his expedition against the Kirghiz, she arrived at Yarkand from Badakhshan. On his return from the campaign he went to visit his aunt, and thus all her relations — all of us to whom the Khanim was either maternal or paternal aunt — had the felicity of meeting her. She remained there to the end of her precious life. An account of her end will be given at the close of the Khan's history.