The Memoirs of Bābur 899.6.2

899.6.2

Ma`sūma-sulṯān Begīm was the youngest of Sl. Aḥmad Mīrzā's daughters. Her mother, Ḥabība-sulṯān Begīm, was of the Arghūns, a daughter of Sl. Ḥusain _Arghūn's_ brother. I saw her when I went to Khurāsān (912 AH.-1506 AD.), liked her, asked for her, had her brought to Kābul and took her (913 AH.-1507 AD.). She had one daughter and there and then, went to God's mercy, through the pains of the birth. Her name was at once given to her child. _s. His ladies and mistresses._ Mihr-nigār Khānīm was his first wife, set aside for him by his father, Sl. Abū-sa`īd Mīrzā. She was Yūnas Khān's eldest [Sidenote: Fol. 20b.] daughter and my mother's full-sister. Tarkhān Begīm of the Tarkhāns was another of his wives. Qātāq Begīm was another, the foster-sister of the Tarkhān Begīm just mentioned. Sl. Aḥmad Mīrzā took her _par amours_ (_`āshiqlār bīlā_): she was loved with passion and was very dominant. She drank wine. During the days of her ascendancy (_tīrīklīk_), he went to no other of his _ḥaram_; at last he took up a proper position (_aūlnūrdī_) and freed himself from his reproach.[210] Khān-zāda Begīm, of the Tīrmīẕ Khāns, was another. He had just taken her when I went, at five years old, to Samarkand; her face was still veiled and, as is the Turkī custom, they told me to uncover it.[211]