[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) › 936.5.4 # The Memoirs of Bābur 936.5.4 The Bābur-nāma in English (A. S. Beveridge) 936.5.4 - **Language:** English ### [936.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.936.5.4) As there cannot have been a wife with her daughter growing up in Bābur's household, who does not appear in some way in Gul-badan's chronicle, and as Salīma's descent from Bābur need not be questioned, the knot is most readily loosened by surmising that "Sālḥa" is the real name of Gul-badan's "Dildār". Instances of double names are frequent, \_e.g.\_ Māhīm, Māh-chīchām, Qarā-gūz, Āq, (My Moon, My Moon sister, Black-eyed, Fair). "Heart-holding" (Dil-dār) sounds like a home-name of affection. It is the \_Ma\`āsir-ī-raḥīmī\_ which gives Sālḥa as the name of Bābur's wife, Pasha's third daughter. Its author may be wrong, writing so late as he did (1025 AH.-1616 AD.), or may have been unaware that Sālḥa was (if she were) known as Dil-dār. It would not war against seeming facts to take Pasha's third daughter to be Bābur's wife Dil-dār, and Dil-dār's daughter Gul-chihra to be Salīma's mother. Gul-chihra was born in about 1516 AD., married to Tūkhta-būghā in 1530 AD., widowed in cir. 1533 AD., might have remarried with Nūru'd-dīn \_Chaqānīānī\_ (Sayyid Amīr), and in 945 AH. might have borne him Salīma; she was married in 1547 AD. (954 AH.) to \`Abbās Sulṯān \_Aūzbeg\_.\[2748\] Two matters, neither having much weight, make against taking Dil-dār to be a \_Mīrān-shāhī\_; the first being that the anonymous annotator who added to the archetype of Kehr's Codex what is entered in Appendix L.—\_On Māhīm's adoption of Hind-āl\_, styles her Dil-dār Āghācha; - [Previous: 936.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.936.5.3) - [Next: 936.5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.936.5.5) - [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.936.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.babur.baburnama~en-beveridge.936.5.4) · Pramāṇa