Storia do Mogor 353.1.4

353.1.4

[73] In the month of February in the year 1705 the wife of A'zam Shãh died ; her name was Jãní Begam, and she was the daughter of the prince Dãrã Shukoh. The death of this princess caused great sorrow in the army, but greatest of all among the principal men and the older nobles, as it revived in them the memory of Dara's good qualities, the prudence, the good administration, with which he ruled over the things put under him. This princess never showed any pain or anger at the act of her husband, A'zam Shãh, in bringing into his palace a public woman as his consort. From this time henceforth there is no survivor of the blood of Dãrã. His son Sultãn Sipihr Shukoh was married to a daughter of Aurangzeb, and [74] was kept a prisoner in the fortress of Salimgarh, as I have already stated in my First Part (I. 256, 278). In these days nothing is said of him, and it is not known whether he is alive or dead. The above-mentioned Jãnl Begam left a good name behind her for generosity and liberality, and for never having given protection to injustice. Thus many times she stopped her own husband when he wanted to plot rebellions and revolutions against King Aurangzeb. But such a good name was not left behind her by the queen Tagimal (Taj Mahal), wife of the King of Gulkandah, and mother of two princesses, who by a piece of cruelty which she committed lost both her good fame and her reason, as I will now recount.