Arjumand Bânu Begam

Arjumand Bânu Begam , called Mumtâz-i Mahal - sometimes simplified in Mumtâz Mahal - in Urdu, the wonder of the palate , is one of the wives of the emperor moghol Shâh Jahân.

Arjumand is born in April 1593 with Âgrâ. His/her father is Âsaf Khân III, the brother of Nûr Jahân, the wife of Jahângîr. It Marie at the nineteen years age, the May 10th 1612, with prince Khurram who will go up later on the Trône of the Peacock. She is his third wife, but will become her favorite.

One knows not large thing concerning it, except that it was re-elected for its beauty, sung by poets of sound alive, and that its marriage was a history of love - it was not to be if current at its time and in its universe - which left its print in the imaginary Indian, in north at least.

Arjumand accompanied her husband in his visits by the empire like in its military campaigns. It is during one of these last, against the Lodî in the Dekkan, which she dies, with Burhanpur, by giving rise to its fourteenth child, the June 17th 1631. It is buried there temporarily in the gardens of Zainabad until the December 11th of the same year.

Arjumand Bânu Begam then is transferred and buried in Âgrâ where the Taj Mahal is built to be its mausoleum.

The descent of Shâh Jahân and Arjumand Bânu Begam

  1. Huralnissa Begam, March 30th 1613, June 14th 1616
  2. Jahânârâ Begam, April 2nd 1614, September 6th 1681
  3. Dârâ Shikôh, March 30th 1615, September 8th 1659, the oldest son, it dies with the hands of his/her brother Aurangzeb during the disorders for the succession under pretext of Hérésie .
  4. Mohammed Shujâ Bahadur, July 3rd 1616, 1660
  5. Raushanarâ Begam, September 3rd 1617, 1671
  6. Mohinnudin Mohammed Aurangzeb , November 3rd 1618, February 21st 1707.
  7. Ummid Baksh, December 18th 1619, March 1622
  8. Surayya Banu Begam, June 10th 1621, April 28th 1628
  9. Murâd Baksh, September 8th 1624, December 14th 1661
  10. Luftallah, November 4th 1626, May 14th 1628
  11. Daulat Afza, May 9th 1628???
  12. Husnara Begam, April 23rd 1630???
  13. Gauhara Begam, June 17th 1631, 1706
  14. Child still-born child

Others

  • Jacques Guerlain created in homage to the Hindu princess, Mumtaz Mahal, its perfume Shalimar, worked out in 1921, but which was presented only in 1925 during the International exhibition of decorative arts of Paris, with the Large palace.

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