The Memoirs of Bābur 936.5.1

936.5.1

The purport of the verses inscribed on the standing-slab is as follows:— A ruler from whose brow shone the Light of God was that[2744] Back-bone of the Faith (_ẕahīru'd-dīn_) Muḥammad Bābur Pādshāh. Together with majesty, dominion, fortune, rectitude, the open-hand and the firm Faith, he had share in prosperity, abundance and the triumph of victorious arms. He won the material world and became a moving light; for his every conquest he looked, as for Light, towards the world of souls. When Paradise became his dwelling and Ruẓwān[2745] asked me the date, I gave him for answer, "Paradise is forever Bābur Pādshāh's abode." _h. Bābur's wives and children._[2746] Bābur himself mentions several of his wives by name, but Gul-badan is the authority for complete lists of them and their children. 1. `Āyisha Sulṯān Begīm, daughter of Sl. Aḥmad Mīrzā _Mīrān-shāhī_ was betrothed, when Bābur was _cir._ 5 years old, in 894 AH. (1488-89 AD.), bore Fakhru'n-nisa' in 906 AH. [who died in about one month], left Bābur before 909 AH. (1503 AD.). 2. Zainab Sl. Begīm, daughter of Sl. Maḥmūd Mīrzā _Mīrān-shāhī_, was married in 910 AH. (1504-5 AD.), died childless two or three years later. 3. Māhīm Begīm, whose parentage is not found stated, was married in 912 AH. (1506 AD.), bore Bār-būd, Mihr-jān, Āīsān-daulat, Farūq [who all died in infancy], and Humāyūn.