The Book of Akbar 54.7
The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II 54.7
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54.7
In the Akbarnama (II. 55) we are told that Maham Anaga had served the prince from his cradle, but it does not follow that she first did so in the capacity of wet-nurse. It may be remarked too that the fact of our not hearing that she had a husband or a child of about Akbar's age militates against the notion that she was his wet-nurse. Though her son, Adham Khan was a young man at the time of his death, he was probably several years older than Akbar as otherwise Bayazid would hardly have named him in the list of servants in Akbar's train at the time when Humayun marched to India.