name. She wrote Persian odes under the pen-name of Makhfi or the Concealed One. But the Diwan-i-Makhfi which is extant cannot with certainty be called her work, because this pseudonym was used by many other royal ladies, such as one of the wives of Akbar.
Scandal connected her name with that of Aqilmand Khan, a noble of her father's Court and a versifier of some repute in his own day.
2. Zinat-un-Nissa, afterwards surnamed Padishah Begam, born probably at Aurangabad, 5th October, 1643. She looked after her old father's household in the Deccan, for a quarter of a century till his death, and survived him many years, enjoying the respect of his successors as the living memorial of a great age. Historians speak of her piety and extensive charity.[1] She was buried in the Zinat-ul-masajid, a splendid mosque built (1700) at her expense in Delhi, but her grave was removed elsewhere by the British military authorities when they occupied the building.[2]
- ↑ Abdul Hamid, ii. 343; M.A. 539; Khafi Khan, ii. 30 (inspires a plot against the Syed brothers). She was alive in the reign of Farukhsiyar.(Ibid, 736).
- ↑ Fanshawe's Delhi: Past and Present, 68. Cunningham, Arch. Survey Reports, I. 230, states, "The Zinat-ul-masajid, more commonly called the Kuari Masjid or 'Maiden's Mosque', because built by Zinat-un-nissa, the daughter of Aurangzib. The people have a tradition
