The Rashīdī History 234.6

234.6

Rashid Sultan did not stop here, but also subjected to every kind of harsh treatment and insult, his aunts, who were members of my haram, and the mother of the children of Shah Muhammad Sultan, who have been mentioned above on various occasions, and will be spoken of again in their proper place. The mother of the children of Shah Muhammad Sultan is Khadija Sultan, a full sister to the late Khan. Though she was suffering from hectic fever and dropsy, and confined to her bed, he banished her and her children into Badakhshan, but ere she could arrive, she died on the road, after undergoing a thousand trials and hardships. Her children, Ismail Sultan, Ishak Sultan, Yakub Sultan, and Muhtarima Khanim — some in infancy, some still at the breast, desolate and friendless exiles — were sent to Kabul, where they were received with fatherly kindness by Timur Sultan, who has been mentioned as being in Hind, in the service of Kamran Mirza. He undertook the entire charge of his sister's sons. Ismail Sultan perished in the wars in Hindustan. Yakub Sultan died a natural death. Muhtarima Khanim was, by my agency, married to Kamran Mirza, as will be related ; Ishak Sultan, also through my influence, is still with Kamran.