Later Mughals v1.c6.s28.7
Later Mughals v1.c6.s28.7
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v1.c6.s28.7
In the autumn season (1112 H., 1700 A.D.) Shah Alam came to Atak,—a bridge was built for him with the help of Khush-hal Kh. Khatak etc., crossed to the Afghan side. He halted two days at Khairabad (opposite Atak), then camped at Sarai, and afterwards moved to Naushara. While the Prince was at Khairabad, Amat-ul-habib, a Kafiri slave-girl in his harem, presented the Prince with a son. She was one of three Kafiri slave-girls sent to Alamgir by Allahdad Khweshgi, faujdar of Langar Kot. Two of them died, and the third was presented to Shah Alam in order to spite the latter's wife, the mother of Rafi-ush-shan. (H. G. Raverty Notes on Afghanistan, 1880, p. 445 and note). For more about Amat-ul-habib, and Mihr-Parwar's jealousy of her, see Masir-ul-umara, iii. 780 (sub voce Mutahavvar Kh. B. Khweshgi).