Storia do Mogor 63.1.8

63.1.8

The king, who was deeply in love with her, sent an order to the governor of the city of Patana (Patnah) that as soon as Sher Afgan should arrive there with a letter he must be slain. This was done, but the valorous soldier, although taken unawares, killed five persons in defending himself. Sher Afgan being dead, Jahangir took the woman into his palace. The condition made was that she should be principal queen, and her father be made wazir, with absolute power throughout the empire, her brothers and nearest relations to be grandees at the court. All of these things were conceded by the king ; he made a grand feast which lasted for eight days, and many gifts were conferred on all the men at court. The queen thus obtained, to whom Jahangir gave the title of Nur Jahan — that is to say, ' Dawn of the World ' — governed the kingdom, and did everything that she pleased. She was a woman of great judgment and, of a verity, worthy to be a queen. They struck coin in her name, which had for symbol the twelve signs of the zodiac, and in her time these were current money.