Noormahal, The Best Beloved Among His Wives,
Whose Name Signifies The Light Of The Court, Was Of Mean Origin, But
Has Since Advanced Her Friends To High Rank And Employments, And In A
Manner Commands The Commander Of The Empire, By Engrossing His Whole
Affections.
The king and his great men continue to maintain their women,
but little affect them after thirty years old.
Notwithstanding the multitude of his women, the Great Mogul has only six
children, five sons and a daughter. All his sons are styled sultans, or
princes. The eldest is Sultan Cursero, the second, Sultan Parrveis,
the third, Sultan Caroon, the fourth, Sultan Shahar, and the
youngest, Sultan Tauct.[243] The name of this last signifies a
Throne; and he was so named by the king, because he was informed of
his birth at the time when he got quiet possession of the throne. The
eldest-born son of one of his legitimate wives has right to inherit the
throne, and has a title signifying the Great Brother. Although the
others are not put to death as with the Turks, yet it is observed that
they seldom long survive their fathers, being commonly employed on some
dangerous expedition.
[Footnote 243: These names seem to have been written by Terry from the
ear. By others, they are respectively named Cusero, Parvis, Churrum,
Shahar, and Taucht. - E.]
Akbar Shah, the father of the reigning Mogul, had threatened to
disinherit him, for some abuse to Anar-Kalee, his most beloved wife,
whose name signifies pomegranate kernel; but on his death-bed he
restored him to the succession.
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