Storia do Mogor 92.1

92.1

Be it known to the reader that at this time Aurangzeb had four sons and four daughters. The sons were Sultan Muhammad, of whom I have already spoken (I. 237), at this time a prisoner, and Sultan Mu'azzam, the second. These were the sons of one mother, a Rajput by race, who offered sacrifice to idols that Sultan Mu'azzam, her son, might be king, seeing that the eldest was a captive. She had a daughter called Zebetnixa Begam (Zeb-un-nissa Begam) — that is to say, 'Light of Women' — and she died in the year one thousand six hundred and eighty-one, on September 1. The other sons were Sultan A'zam and Sultan Akbar, who were sons of another mother, a Persian by race, the daughter of Xanavascan (Shah Nawaz Khan), of whom I have already spoken (I. 225). This queen had two daughters called Zinethnexa Begom (Zinat-un-nissa Begam) — that is to say, 'Riches of Women'—and the other called Bederexa Begom (Badr-un-nissa Begam)—that is to say, 'Moon of Women.' These princesses forced their father to get them husbands, in opposition to the precedent handed down by King Akbar to the Mogul kings not to give their daughters in marriage. As Aurangzeb was unwilling to break this rule, they told him that the Mogul kings were not greater than the great Muhammad, who gave his daughter in marriage to 'Ali.