Both the inside view of Seraglio or haramsara and the outside view can be seen.
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A group of women are seen clapping and playing ‘dhol’. The new born baby is shown to be presented to the mother. Painting showing the birth of Jahangir attributed to painter Bishandas. Now, let us see the birth events of Selim in a painting done by Bishandas. Tomb of Sheikh Selim Chisti at Fatehpur Sikri (Inside view) The Shaykh accepted and said, ‘May he be blessed. ‘I vow to turn my first son over to you for training and attention’, my father said, ‘and put him under the protection and guardianship of your compassion and kindness’. ‘ He who bestows without obligation will give you three sons.’, he replied. One day while Shaykh Selim was in a trance, my father asked him, ‘How many sons will I have?’ Because, my father was a devotee of dervishes, he visited this one too. The people in the vicinity believed in the Shaykh implicitly.
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“ During the days when my exalted father was seeking a son, an ecstatic dervish named Shaykh Selim, who had traversed many stages of life, lived on a mountain next to a Sikri, a dependency of Agra. Jahangir in Jahangir nama describes the dramatic incident of the meeting between the monarch and the saint: He made a vow to his most beloved saint, Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti : Give me a son and I will walk from Agra to Ajmer and offer you my gratitude at your holy shrine.Īt this time, he heard the name of Sheikh Selim Chishti. He went to holy men and prayed, and he asked holy men to pray for him. “ My father“, Selim writes, “ was always soliciting dervishes and hermits”, but nothing came of it. In 1564, twin sons were born to Akbar named Mirza Hasan and Hussain, after the grandsons of Prophet Muhammad, but both of them died within a month. In 1562-63, a daughter was born to Akbar and was named Fatima Begum, but she died immediately. At a glance information regarding ‘Jodha Bai/Hira Bai/ Marium Uz Zamani.īirth of Jahangir-Jodha Bai and Akbar’s son :Īkbar at that time was eagerly waiting for a child. For example, Akbar’s own mother and wife of the second Mughal Humayun, Hamida Banu, had always been referred to as Maryam Makhani or ‘one who lives with Mary’. It was always the custom to refer important personages with honorific titles and not with names. In contemporary Mughal sources, she was always referred to as ‘ Mariam Uz Zamani‘ or ‘Mary of the Ages’. “Ī genealogical table showing the relationship of the Mughals with the House of Amber. While Bihar Mal was loaded with gifts and favours and given leave to return to his capital, Bhagwant Das, Man Singh and a number of their relatives and officers were attached to the emperor’s train and accompanied him to Agra. His transcendent genius was instinctively perceived by the sagacious Akbar, and he was forthwith enrolled in the permanent service of the Emperor.
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Here Man Singh, the son of Bihar Mal’s eldest son Bhagwant Das, was presented to the emperor. At Ratanpura (8 miles east of Jaipur), Akbar’s newly made kinsmen again came to his camp to take formal leave of him ( 10th February ). “ Here Bihar Mal brought his daughter and she was married to Akbar (circa 6th February 1562) amidst proper festivity. Profesor Jadunath Sarkar in ‘A History of Jaipur’ writes, (page 36-37) : He was stationed at Sambhar where this marriage took place. Akbar at that time was returning from a pilgrimage from the Dargah of Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer. The ‘ Ain – i-Akbari’ gives the description of this celebrated marriage. The name entered in the popular imagination and stayed permanently in the collective memory. It was Colonel Todd who first mistakenly referred to her as Jodha Bai in his book ‘The Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan’. So how come she came to be known as Jodha Bai? She was the daughter of Raja Bihari Mal of Amber. Jodha Bai actually means a woman from Jodhpur.