History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v3.c37.s4.7

v3.c37.s4.7

Aurangzib is said to have been led by a Muslim faqir's insistence and the Prophet's example to give up the Mughal royal practice of making the daughters of the sovereign live and die as maidens. (Storia, ii. 58.) Two of his daughters, Mihr-un-nisa and Zubdat-un-nisa, were given away in marriage, and a third (Badr-un-nisa) died young at the age of twenty-two before a suitable match could be found for her.