Parhez Banu Begum

Parhez Banu Begum
Shahzadi of the Mughal Empire
Born	21 August 1611 Agra, India
Died	c. 1675 Delhi, India
House	House of Timur
Father	Shah Jahan
Mother	Kandahari Begum
Religion	Islam

Parhez Banu Begum (21 August 1611 – c. 1675) was a Mughal princess and the first child and eldest daughter of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan from his first wife, Kandahari Begum. She was also the older half-sister of her father's successor, the sixth Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.

Parhez was born on 21 August 1611 in Agra to Prince Khurram (the future Emperor Shah Jahan) and his first wife Kandahari Begum. She was named "Parhez Banu Begum" by her paternal grandfather, Emperor Jahangir. However, in the Maasir-i-Alamgiri, she is referred to as Purhunar Banu Begum.

Her father, Prince Khurram, was the third son of Emperor Jahangir, while her mother, Kandahari Begum, was a princess of the prominent Safavid dynasty of Iran (Persia) and was a daughter of Sultan Muzaffar Husain Mirza Safavi (who was a direct descendant of Shah Ismail I).

Parhez was Shah Jahan's first child and his eldest daughter and was brought up by her great-grandmother, the Dowager empress Ruqaiya Sultan Begum, who had been Emperor Akbar's first and chief wife, and who had also brought up her father, Shah Jahan.

Although her mother was not Shah Jahan's favourite wife, nonetheless, she was loved by her father; who had earnestly requested his daughter, Jahanara Begum (his eldest daughter from Mumtaz Mahal) on his deathbed, to look after Parhez. She was also loved and well-cared for by her her younger half-brother, Aurangzeb.

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