Parhez Banu Begum (; 21 August 1611 – 19 October 1675) was a

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princess, the first child and eldest daughter of Mughal emperor

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from his first wife, Qandahari Begum. She was also the older half-sister of her father's successor, the sixth Mughal emperor

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Life

Parhez was born on 21 August 1611 in

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to Prince Khurram (the future emperor Shah Jahan) and his first wife Kandahari Begum. She was named 'Parhez Banu Begum' (

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: "the abstinent Princess") by her paternal grandfather, Emperor

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. However, in the ''Maasir-i-Alamgiri'', she is referred to as Purhunar Banu Begum. Her father, Prince Khurram, was the third son of Emperor Jahangir, while her mother, Kandahari Begum, was a princess of the prominent

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(Persia) and was a daughter of Mozaffar-Hosayn Mirza (who was a direct descendant of Shah

Ismail I Ismail I (; 17 July 1487 – 23 May 1524) was the founder and first shah of Safavid Iran, ruling from 1501 until his death in 1524. His reign is one of the most vital in the history of Iran, and the Safavid period is often considered the beginn ...

). Parhez was Shah Jahan's first child and his eldest daughter and was brought up by the

Ruqaiya Sultan Begum Ruqaiya Sultan Begum (alternatively spelled Ruqayya or Ruqayyah; 1542 – January 1626) was the first wife and one of the chief consorts of the third Mughal emperor, Akbar. Ruqaiya was a first cousin of her husband and was a Mughal princess ...

, who had been Emperor

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's first wife, and who had also brought up her father, Shah Jahan till the age of 13. Although her mother was not Shah Jahan's favourite wife, nonetheless, she was loved by her father; who had earnestly requested his daughter,

Jahanara Begum Jahanara Begum (23 March 1614 – 16 September 1681) was a princess of the Mughal Empire. She was the second and the eldest surviving child of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal. After Mumtaz Mahal's untimely death in 1631, the 17-ye ...

(his eldest daughter from

Mumtaz Mahal Mumtaz Mahal (; ; born Arjumand Banu Begum; 27 April 1593 – 17 June 1631) was the empress consort of Mughal Empire from 1628 to 1631 as the chief consort of the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan. The Taj Mahal in Agra, often cited as one of t ...

) on his deathbed, to look after Parhez. She was also loved and well-cared for by her younger half-brother, Aurangzeb.

Death

Perhez died on 19 October 1675 in Delhi. The nobles of the subah buried her in the mausoleum (garden) built by her.

Ancestry

References

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