. 936 TO 937 AH. 1529 TO 1530 AD.                          713 calima Sultan Beglm who was given in marriage by Humayun to Bairam Khan, later was married by Akbar, and was a woman 0f charm and literary accomplishments. Later historians, Abu'lfazl amongst their number, say that Salima's mother was a daughter of Babur's wife Salha Sultan Beglm, and vary that daughter's name as Gul-rang-rukh-barg or -'izar (the last form being an equivalent of chihra, face). As there cannot have been a wife with her daughter growing up in Babur's household, who does not appear in some way in Gul-badan's chronicle, and as Salima's descent from Babur need not be questioned, the knot is most readily loosened by surmising that " Salha" is the real name of Gul-badan's "Dildar". Instances of double names are frequent, e.g. Mahim, Mah-chlcham, Qara-guz, Aq, (My Moon, My Moon sister, Black-eyed, Fair). " Heart-holding" (Dil-dar) sounds like a home-name of affection. It is the Ma'dsir-i-rahinii which gives Salha as the name of Babur's wife, Pasha's third daughter. Its author maybe wrong,writing so late ashedid(i02$AH.-i6i6Ap.), or may have.been unaware that Salha was (if she were) known as Dil-dar. It would not war against seeming facts to take Pasha's third daughter to be Babur's wife Dil-dar, and Dil-dar's daughter Gul-chihra to be Salima's mother. Gul-chihra was born in about 1516 AD., married to Tukhta-bugha in 1530 AD., widowed in cir. 1533 AD., might have remarried with Nuru'd-dln Chaqdnidni (Sayyid Amir), and in 945 AH. might have borne him Sallma; she was married in 1547 AD. (954 AH.) to 'Abbas Sultan Aiizbeg} Two matters, neither having much weight, make against taking Dil-dar to be a Mirdn-shdhi; the first being that the anonymous annotator who added to the archetype of Kehr's Codex what is entered in Appendix L,.-On Mdhiiris adoption of Hind-dl, styles her Dil-dar Aghacha ; he, however, may have known no more than others knew of her descent; the second, that Mahim forcibly took Dil-dar's child Hind-al to rear ; she was the older wife and the mother of the heir, but could she have taken the upper hand over a Miran-shahi? A circumstance complicating the question °f Salima's maternal descent is, that historians searching the Babitr-nama or its Persian translation the Wdqi'dt-i-bdburi for '^formation about the three daughters of Mahmud Miran-shahi 1 Bio. App. s.n. Gul-chihra.