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# The History of Humāyūn (Gulbadan Begam) 109: CXXIV. Mah-chuchak Begam.

The History of Humāyūn (A. S. Beveridge) 109

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Sister of Bairam Oghlan and of Faridun Khan Kabuli.  
She married Humayun in 1546. She had two sons, Muhammad Hakim (born 960H. — 1553) and Farrukh-fal. Gul-badan says she had four daughters and then, with discrepancy frequently found in her writings, names three: Bakht-nisa', Sakina-banu, and Amina-banu. The name of the best-known of her girls, Fakhru-n-nisa', is omitted.  
Mah-chuchak's story is told by her sister-in-law, in the Introduction of this volume, by Mr. Blochmann and by several Persian writers.  
She was murdered by Shah Abu'l-ma'ali in Kabul in 1564.  
Gul-badan, 71a, 71b, 78a, 78b, 85a. Jauhar, Mr. William Irvine's MS., Part II., Chapter II. Bayazid, I. O. MS., 72a. Nizamu-d-din Ahmad, 27th year of Akbar. Badaoni, Lowe, 64 et seq. Ain-i-akbari, Blochmann, i. 11.

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