[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) › 936.5.3 # The Memoirs of Bābur 936.5.3 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 936.5.3 - **Language:** English ### [936.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.936.5.3) What would sufficiently explain the absence of mention by Bābur of the parentage of Gul-rukh and Dil-dār is that his record of the years within which the two Begīms were married is not now with the \_Bābur-nāma\_. Presumably it has been lost, whether in diary or narrative form, in the \_lacuna\_ of 914-25 AH. (1508-19 AD.). Gul-rukh appears to have belonged to the family of Begchīk Mughūls described by Ḥaidar Mīrzā\[2747\]; her brothers are styled Mīrzā; she was of good but not royal birth. Dil-dār's case is less simple. Nothing in her daughter Gul-badan's book suggests that she and her children were other than of the highest rank; numerous details and shades of expression show their ease of equality with royal personages. It is consistent with Gul-badan's method of enumerating her father's wives that she should not state her own mother's descent; she states it of none of her "mothers". There is this interest in trying to trace Dil-dār's parentage, that she may have been the third daughter of Sl. Maḥmūd Mīrzā and Pasha Begīm, and a daughter of hers may have been the mother of Salīma Sulṯān Begīm who was given in marriage by Humāyūn to Bairām Khān, later was married by Akbar, and was a woman of charm and literary accomplishments. Later historians, Abū'l-faẓl amongst their number, say that Salīma's mother was a daughter of Bābur's wife Sālḥa Sulṯān Begīm, and vary that daughter's name as Gul-rang-rukh-barg or -\`iẕār (the last form being an equivalent of \_chihra\_, face). - [Previous: 936.5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.936.5.2) - [Next: 936.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.936.5.4) - [Up: 936.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.936.5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.936.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.936.5.3) · Pramāṇa