11.  The long interval which elapsed between Sher Afgan’s death and the marriage with the Emperor is a fact opposed to the assumptions which the author adopts that Nur Mahall was ‘nothing loth’, and that the death of her first husband was contrived by Jahangir.

12.  Quaint Sir Thomas Herbert thus expresses himself:  ’Meher Metzia [Mihr-un-nisa] is forthwith espoused with all solemnity to the King, and her name changed to Nourshabegem [Nur Shah Begam], or Nor-mahal, i.e., Light or Glory of the Court; her Father upon this affinity advanced upon all the other Umbraes [’umara’, or nobles]; her brother, Assaph-Chan [Asaf Khan], and most of her kindred, smiled upon, with the addition of Honours, Wealth, and Command.  And in this Sun-shine of content Jangheer [Jahangir] spends some years with his lovely Queen, without regarding ought save Cupid’s Currantoes’ (Travels, ed. 1677, p. 74).  Authority exists for the title Asaf Jah, as well as for the variant Asaf Khan.

Coins were struck in the joint names of Jahangir and his consort, bearing a rhyming Persian couplet to the effect that

’By command of Jahangir the King, from the name of Nur Jahan his Queen, gold gained a hundred beauties.’

The Queen’s administration is censured by some of the European travellers who visited India during Jahangir’s reign as being venal and inefficient, and she is accused of cruelty and perfidy.  She died on the 18th December (N.S.), 1645, and was buried by the aide of Jahangir in his mausoleum at Lahore.  At her death she was in her 72nd year, according to the Muhammadan lunar reckoning, and would thus have been thirty-four solar years of age when the Emperor married her in 1610 (Beale:  Blochmann).

13.  According to Sir Thomas Herbert (Travels, ed. 1677, p. 99), ‘Queen Normahal and her three daughters’ were confined by order of Shah Jahan in A.D. 1628.

14.  Son of Bhagwan Das, of Amber or Jaipur, in Rajputana, and one of the greatest of Akbar’s officers.

15.  Also known as Aziz Kokah, a foster-brother of Akbar.

16.  This story may or may not be true; but a charge of this kind is absolutely incapable of proof, and would be readily generated in the palace atmosphere.

17.  According to a contemporary authority, the blinding was only partial, and the prince recovered the sight of one eye (E. & D. vi. 448).  With regard to such details the discrepancies in the histories are innumerable.

18.  A.H. 1031 = A.D. 1621-2.  The charge seems to be true.

19.  A.H. 1036 = A.D. 1626-7.

20.  This is a blunder.  Jahangir’s fourth son was named Jahandar, and died in or about A.H. 1035 = A.D. 1625-6.  Daniyal was third son of Akbar, and younger brother of Jahangir.  He died from delirium tremens in A.D. 1605, a few months before the death of Akbar,

21.  Jahangir died, when returning from Kashmir, on the 8th November, A.D. 1627 (N.S.), and was buried near Lahore.  The fight with Shahryar took place at Lahore.