Bibliotheca Indica Volume 61 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...II. of Persia. When the death of that monarch deprived him of the assistance which he had just received, he went to Muzaffar Husain Mirza (No. 8) at Qandahar, and then to M. M. Hakim at Kabul. Not succeeding in raising disturbances in Kabul, he made for the frontier of Badakhshan, and luckily finding some adherents, he managed to get from his grandson the territory between Tdiqdn and the Hindu Kush. Soon after Muhtarim Khanum died. Being again pressed by Shahrukh, M. Sulaiman applied for help to 'Abdullah Khan Uzbak, king of Turdn, who had long wished to annex Badakhshan. He invaded and took the country in 992; Shahrukh fled to Hindustan, and M. Sulaiman to Kabul. As he could not recover Badakhshan, and rendered destitute by the death of M. M. Hakim, he followed tho example of his grandson, and repaired to the court of Akbar who made hiin a Commander of six thousand. A few years later, he died at Labor, at the age of seventy-seven. 7. Mi'rza' Sha'hrukh, son of Mirza Ibrahim. Vide Nos. 5 and 6. Akbar, in 1001, gave him his daughter Shukrunnisa Begum, and made him governor of Malwah, and he distinguished himself in the conquest of the Dak'hin. Towards the end of Akbar's reign, he was made a Commander of seven thousand, and was continued in his Maneah by Jahangir. He died at Ujain in 1016. His wife, Kdbuli Begum, was a daughter of Mirza Muhammad Hakim. She wanted to take his body to Madinah, but was robbed by the Badawis; and after handing over the body to some ' scoundrels, ' she went to Bacrah, and then to Shiraz. In 1022, Shah 'Abbas married her to Mirza Sultan 'All, his uncle, whom he had blinded; but the Begum did not like her new husband. Skahrukh's Children. 1. Hasan and Husain, twins. Hasan fled with Khusrau and was imprisoned by Jahangir. 2. Uadi'uzzam..