[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) › [Humāyūn and the Sūrs (1530–1556)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.humayun) › [Humāyūnnāma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.humayun.humayunnama) › [The History of Humayun (A. S. Beveridge)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.humayun.humayunnama~en-beveridge) › 49 # The History of Humāyūn (Gulbadan Begam) 49: XLIV. Daulat-bakht Bībī (No. 85). The History of Humāyūn (A. S. Beveridge) 49 - **Language:** English ### [49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.humayun.humayunnama~en-beveridge.49) She was clearly an active and working member of Humāyūn’s household. She appeared to him in a dream (71a), and her name formed a part of Fakhru-n-nisā’s. She went on before the main body of bēgams when they visited the waterfall at Farza, and saw to the commissariat. She is named as being at Hindāl’s marriage feast. Young Daulat-sultan to his son Timur. She bore him a daughter, and she remained in his haram until Babar took possession of Samarqand in 917H. (1511), and she joined him. She went south with him in 1513, and remained several years in Badakhshan with another nephew, Mirza (Wais) Khan who behaved to her like a son. Another nephew, Sa'id, her own brother Ahmad’s son, then invited her, with costly gifts, to visit him in Kashghar. She made the long and difficult journey, joined him in Yarkand, and with him she spent the rest of her life. Babar mentions that her foster-brother brought him news and letters from her in 925H. (September 8th, 1519). In the same year Mansur, Sa'id’s eldest brother, went to Kashghar to visit her, his ‘beloved aunt.’ The Persian text of the Tarikh-i-Rashidi says that Mansur went so that by looking at her kind face his grief for the loss of his father might be mitigated. The Bible Society’s Turki version reads ‘Being prompted thereto by the extreme warmth of his affection for her.’ Both statements illumine her character. The second seems the more appropriate, since the death of Sultan Ahmad Khan took place in 909H. (1503) and Mansur’s visit in 926H. (1520). There is no mention of her remarriage, and her story is that of an affectionate and leisured aunt. Mems., 14, 99, 105, 274. Tar. Rash., E. B., 108, 117, 156, 160, 351, 352, 356. - [Previous: 48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.humayun.humayunnama~en-beveridge.48) - [Next: 50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.humayun.humayunnama~en-beveridge.50) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.humayun.humayunnama~en-beveridge.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.humayun.humayunnama~en-beveridge.49) · Pramāṇa