Badr-un-Nissa Begum ( fa, بدرالنساء بیگم; 17 November 1647 – 9 April 1670) was a Mughal princess, the only daughter of Mughal Emperor

Aurangzeb Muhi al-Din Muhammad (; – 3 March 1707), commonly known as ( fa, , lit=Ornament of the Throne) and by his regnal title Alamgir ( fa, , translit=ʿĀlamgīr, lit=Conqueror of the World), was the sixth emperor of the Mughal Empire, ruling ...

, and his secondary wife

Nawab Bai Rahmat-un-Nissa ( fa, رحمت النساء بیگم; died 1691), better known by her title Nawab Bai ( fa, نواب بائی; meaning "The Great"), was a secondary wife of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. She gave birth to Aurangzeb's first two s ...

. ''Badr-un-Nissa'' is itself an Arabic phrase meaning "the Full Moon among Women".

Life

Badr-un-Nissa Begum was born on 17 November 1647, during her grandfather Emperor

Shah Jahan Shihab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram (5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666), better known by his regnal name Shah Jahan I (; ), was the fifth emperor of the Mughal Empire, reigning from January 1628 until July 1658. Under his emperorship, the Mugha ...

's reign. Her mother was Nawab Bai, a princess from Kashmir Belonging from the

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dynasty of

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. She was the couple's third and last child. Her elder siblings were Prince

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, and Prince Muhammad Muazzam (future Emperor

Bahadur Shah I Bahadur Shah I (14 October 1643 – 27 February 1712), also known as Muhammad Mu'azzam and Shah Alam I. was the eighth Mughal Emperor who ruled from 1707 until his death in 1712. In his youth, he conspired to overthrow his father Aurangzeb, t ...

). At the time of Aurangzeb's second coronation in 1659, he rewarded Badr-un-Nissa with 160,000 Rupess. She is said to be more educated than her sisters. She memorized the Quran, and read books on faith at the persuasion of her father. She spend her life in doing good things. She was loved by Aurangzeb for her marvelous character, etiquettes, and kind heartedness. She died unmarried at the age of twenty two on 9 April 1670, in the thirteenth year of her father's reign. Aurangzeb was distressed upon her death.

Ancestry

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