Guru Arjandevji had met voluntarily his watery end in the river Ravi, but in the meantime Khusrau Mirza was made prisoner with his followers in the court of Jehangir , the Mughal emperor . He was in fetters standing before his father , waiting for the retribution for sedition . Nobody in the harem was coming forward to stall the wrath of Emperor . First ,Khusrau Mirza was to sit in a howdah of an elephant & it was made to wend around a path, where his followers were impaled on long bamboo staff fitted with spears . Rows of impaled shrieking followers making a dreadful spectacle which has been accounted by historians. The retribution of Khusrau Mirza did not stop here . He was ordered to be blinded by his own father . Process of blinding was to pierce the eyeballs by red hot iron wire . Khusrau Mirza withstood the pain with great fortitude not reacting to immense pain endeared him to general mass.
Khusau Mirza had many kith & kin in the harem but his wife turned most loyal to him . She was daughter of Rahim Khane-a-khana . She tended him to health gave warmth but but perhaps she was the cause of his death as events in his life unfolded . Jehangir feeling remorse for his action , nudged Khusrau Mirza to sit in his court with the help of senior begums of harem chiefly Jodha Bai. Salima begam & Ruqayyia Sultan .But Khusrau Mirza never came out of melancholia though best of 'hakims' were employed to retrieve his vision . They only succeeded in bringing part of his vision making people look like ghosts.
In !627 Jehangir died but in this tenure he had twenty legally wedded wifves . From his another Hindu wife Jagat Gosain he had Khurram as his son .Some 'Faqir' had predicted , next emperor was in the queen's womb so at the time of his birth senior begum Ruqqaya was given the charge at the time of the birth of the boy by Jehangir as begum Ruqyyaiya desired . Senior begum Ruquayyia was childless .Khurram' s own mother turned an biological mother of Khurram & after 12 years she was able to see her own son. .Khurram was Sahjehan as we all know .
Khusau Mirza had many kith & kin in the harem but his wife turned most loyal to him . She was daughter of Rahim Khane-a-khana . She tended him to health gave warmth but but perhaps she was the cause of his death as events in his life unfolded . Jehangir feeling remorse for his action , nudged Khusrau Mirza to sit in his court with the help of senior begums of harem chiefly Jodha Bai. Salima begam & Ruqayyia Sultan .But Khusrau Mirza never came out of melancholia though best of 'hakims' were employed to retrieve his vision . They only succeeded in bringing part of his vision making people look like ghosts.
In !627 Jehangir died but in this tenure he had twenty legally wedded wifves . From his another Hindu wife Jagat Gosain he had Khurram as his son .Some 'Faqir' had predicted , next emperor was in the queen's womb so at the time of his birth senior begum Ruqqaya was given the charge at the time of the birth of the boy by Jehangir as begum Ruqyyaiya desired . Senior begum Ruquayyia was childless .Khurram' s own mother turned an biological mother of Khurram & after 12 years she was able to see her own son. .Khurram was Sahjehan as we all know .
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