She was born in Kandahar in Afghanistan hence named after that title. She had two daughters from Shah jahan. Parez Banu Begum, eldest child and daughter of Shah jahan who was born on 21 st August People wrongly assume Jahanara to be eldest daughter and child of Shah jahan. Her second daughter Hurunissa Begum was born in She died on 7 th February She is buried in Qandahari bagh in agra built by her in She was very close to Shah Jahan after Mumtaz Mahals death even becoming his constant companion during his time in prison in his last years.
She married him in She was neice of Jodha Bai mother of Shah jahan and emperor Jehangir. She had a daughter who was born in Jehangir married Shah jahan to Manbhavaiti Baiji. Many mughal emperors married a princess of Jodhpur till the last mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar.
Mumtaz Mahal married Shah Jahan on 30 th April at agra. They were engaged on 30 th January but married 5 years later. It was this centralization that allowed the power to achieve harmony in the Mogul society of the eighteenth century. Shah Jahan erected many splendid monuments, the most famous of which is the Taj Mahal in Agra. The Pearl Mosque in Agra, the palace and the grand mosque in Delhi or the Throne of the Peacock, which is said to be worth millions of dollars, according to modern estimates, are all constructions of Shah Jahan.
He was the founder of Shahjahanabad, now known as "Old Delhi". There were also other buildings, initiated by this creative emperor: the Diwan-i-Am and Diwan-i-Khas, in the Red Fort of Delhi, for example. Besides, the court of the Emperor was, it seems, of a high quality and very impressive, for the European visitors of the time. The throne of the Peacock, with its flamboyant procession of natural colors giving the illusion of movement, was in rubies, sapphires and emeralds.
Many nobles possessed great wealth, too. When he died in , his son Aurangazeb had already taken power for 8 years. Of course, a great number of children were born of these unions, many of whom, unfortunately, died young.
Shah Jahan was a Muslim, as we can see from his constructions, especially the Taj Mahal. These two first marriages are not marriages of love but of reason, coming to break the engagement which already united in the young Shah Jahan, still named by his name of "Khurram", with Arjumand Bano Begum, the granddaughter of a Persian nobleman, who was only 14 years old at that time.
She became the love of his life and for whom he will build the Taj Mahal. They married in and lived, according to the chroniclers of the time, a great love story. It is on the occasion of their marriages that Shah Jahan offered his wife the name "Bijou du Palais", and it is under this name that we know her today: Mumtaz-i Mahal. The passion that united them was sincere, obviously. At his death Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal to serve as a tomb.
Ahmadnagar was taken in , Golkonda in , and Bijapur in In the northwest, however, imperial armies were unsuccessful. The attempt in to annex Balkh and Badakshan, ancestral possessions of Babur, the founder of the Mogul Empire, failed.
Shah Jahan had three wives. His second wife, Mumtaz Mahal, whom he had married in , died in She had been the mother of 14 of his 16 children. It was to her memory that the Taj Mahal was built. In this most beautiful of the world's tombs, the minutest detail has been carefully thought out and executed with tireless precision. In inscribing texts from the Koran round the tall doorways, the artists have shown themselves such masters of perspective that the letters 30 feet or more above the line of the eye appear to be exactly of the same size as those a foot above the floor level.
Onyx, jasper, cornelian, carbuncle, malachite, lapis lazuli, and other precious stones are studded in the mosaic. It has been described as "A Dream in Marble. Within the fort is the Hall of Public Audience, and here Shah Jahan sat on the Peacock Throne, which consisted entirely of jewels and precious metals and stones. Four legs of gold supported the seat; 12 pillars of emeralds held up the emerald canopy; each pillar bore two peacocks encrusted with gems; and between each pair of peacocks rose a tree covered with diamonds, emeralds, rubies, and pearls.
Under Shah Jahan's patronage jewelry reached a high degree of perfection, and jewelers from both Asia and Europe visited the Mogul court to sell their craft and gems. Yet in spite of all these lavish expenditures, the imperial treasury was never in debt; in fact, Shah Jahan ended his reign with more money in the treasury than he had at the beginning of his reign.
His reign also saw the rendering into Persian of several Sanskrit classics; some of these translations were patronized by his son Dara Shikoh.
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