Parhez Banu Begum (21 August 1611 – 1675) was a Mughal 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 Sultan Muzaffar Husain Mirza Safavi (who was a direct descendant of Shah

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

Ruqaiya Sultan Begum Ruqaiya Sultan Begum (alternative spelling: Ruqayya, Ruqayyah) ( – 1626) was the first and chief wife of the third Mughal emperor, Akbar. Ruqaiya was a first cousin of her husband and was a Mughal princess by birth. Her father, Hindal Mir ...

, 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 Mughal princess and later the Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire from 1631 to 1658 and again from 1668 until her death. She was the second and the eldest surviving child of Emperor Shah ...

(his eldest daughter from

Mumtaz Mahal Mumtaz Mahal (/'/; ), born Arjumand Banu Begum (27 April 1593 – 17 June 1631) was the empress consort of the Mughal Empire from 19 January 1628 to 17 June 1631 as the chief consort of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. The Taj Mahal in Agra, oft ...

) 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 musoleum (garden) built by her.

Ancestry

References

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