Aurangabadi Mahal

Aurangabadi Mahal (; meaning "Prosperity of the Throne"; died 1688) was a wife of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. Origins Aurangabadi Mahal either belonged to Aurangabad, or had entered Aurangzeb's harem in the city of Aurangabad. She was either Georgian or Circassian by origin. Ever since from the reign of Emperor Akbar, it had been ordained that the names of the women of the imperial harem should not be mentioned in public, they should be designated by some epithet, derived either from the place of their birth or the city or country where they had entered the imperial harem. According to some sources it is also said that Aurangzeb married to Arzani Begum Daughter of Prince Shahreyar Mirza, Granddaughter of Jahangir and Nur Jahan. It is said that after the death of Noor Jahan and Ladli Begum as Arzani Begum became alone Aurangzeb brought her from Lahore to Aurangabad and got married for her support. After the marriage her name is to be named as Aurangabadi Mahal. Marriage On 28 September 1661, she gave birth to Aurangzeb's youngest daughter, Mihr-un-nissa Begum. She was the ninth child of her father, and the only child of her mother.