The History of Humāyūn (Gulbadan Begam) 160: CLXXX. Shahr-banu Begam.
The History of Humāyūn (A. S. Beveridge) 160
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cf. Ar. hilal; Pr. the moon, the new moon.
Daughter of Sultan Abu-sa‘id Mirza Miran-shahi; wife of Sultan Husain Mirza Baiqara and married to him before his accession in 873 H. (March, 1469).
Babar gives an entertaining detail about her married life. Once at Chekman her husband was engaged in a battle with her brother Mahmud. All ladies except herself alighted from their litters and mounted on horseback, presumably for rapid flight if the day went against Husain. Shahr-banu, however, ‘relying on her brother,’ remained in her litter. This being reported to her husband, he divorced her and married her younger sister, Payanda-sultan.
Of her subsequent history nothing seems recorded. (cf. Mingli-bi Aghacha.)
Mems., 182.