[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Mughals (1526–1857)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal) › [Bābur (1526–1530)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur) › [Bāburnāma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama) › [The Babur-nama in English (A. S. Beveridge)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge) › 911.4.8 # The Memoirs of Bābur 911.4.8 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 911.4.8 - **Language:** English ### [911.4.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.4.8) The wife he first took was Bega Sulṯān Begīm, a daughter of Sl. Sanjar of Marv. She was the mother of Badī\`u'z-zamān Mīrzā. She was very cross-tempered and made the Mīrzā endure much wretchedness, until driven at last to despair, he set himself \[Sidenote: Fol. 169.\] free by divorcing her. What was he to do? Right was with him.\[1048\] A bad wife in a good man's house Makes this world already his hell.\[1049\] God preserve every Musalmān from this misfortune! Would that not a single cross or ill-tempered wife were left in the world! Chūlī Begīm was another; she was a daughter of the Aẕāq begs and was the mother of Sulṯānīm Begīm. Shahr-bānū Begīm was another; she was Sl. Abū-sa\`īd Mīrzā's daughter, taken after Sl. Ḥusain Mīrzā took the throne (873 AH.). When the Mīrzā's other ladies got out of their litters and mounted horses, at the battle of Chīkmān, Shahr-bānū Begīm, putting her trust in her younger brother (Sl. Maḥmūd M.), did not leave her litter, did not mount a horse;\[1050\] people told the Mīrzā of this, so he divorced her and took her younger sister Payānda-sulṯān Begīm. When the Aūzbegs took Khurāsān (913 AH.), Payānda-sulṯān Begīm went into \`Irāq, and in \`Irāq she died in great misery. - [Previous: 911.4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.4.7) - [Next: 911.5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.5.1) - [Up: 911.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.4.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.911.4.8) · Pramāṇa