In a few days
their marriage was celebrated with great magnificence;[11] and from
that hour the Emperor resigned the reins of government almost
entirely into her hands; and, till his death, under the name first of
Nur Mahall, 'Light of the Palace', and afterwards of Nur Jahan,
'Light of the World ', she ruled the destinies of this great empire.
Her father was now raised from the station of high treasurer to that
of prime minister. Her two brothers obtained the titles of Asaf Jah
and Itikad Khan; and the relations of the family poured in from
Tartary in search of employment, as soon as they heard of their
success.[12] Nur Jahan had by Sher Afgan, as I have stated, one
daughter; but she had never any child by the Emperor Jahangir.[13]
Asaf Jah became prime minister on the death of his father; and, in
spite of his sister, he managed to secure the crown to Shah Jahan,
the third son of Jahangir, who had married his daughter, the lady
over whose remains the Taj was afterwards built. Jahangir's eldest
son, Khusru, had his eyes put out by his father's orders for repeated
rebellions, to which he had been instigated by a desire to revenge
his mother's murder, and by the ambition of her brother, the Hindoo
prince, Man Singh,[14] who wished to see his own nephew on the
throne, and by his wife's father, the prime minister of Akbar, Khan
Azam.
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