She built a serai at Fardapur, at the foot of the pass, and also founded Baijipura, a suburb of Aurangabad.[1] The misconduct of her sons, Muhammad Sultan and Muazzam, who disobeyed the Emperor under the influence of evil counsellors, embittered her latter life. Her advice and even personal entreaty had no effect on Muazzam,[2] who was at last placed under arrest. Nawab Bai seems to have lost her charms and with them her husband's favour rather early in life, and ended her days some time before the middle of 1691[3] at Delhi, after many years of separation from her husband and sons.
Another secondary wife was Aurangabadi Mahal, so named because she entered the Mughal harem in the city of Aurangabadi Mahal Aurangabad. The bubonic plague carried her off in October or November 1688, at the city of Bijapur.[4]
- ↑ Khafi Khan, ii. 605.
- ↑ M. A. 101, 293, (and for Sultan) 30, 121.
- ↑ M. A. 343.
- ↑ M. A. 318. Her tomb is thus described by Manucci, "The king caused a magnificent tomb to be erected to the
been her father's creed, was burnt or buried as her husband happened to be a Hindu or Islamite. But in October, 1634, Shah Jahan forbade the custom and ordered that every Hindu who had taken a Muslim wife must either embrace Islam and be married anew to her, or he must give her up to be wedded to a Muslim. This order was rigorously enforced. (Abdul Hamid, I. B. 57).
