Gonhar 98 Habib Gouhar Shad Begam, ■^^■^ j^^-, the wife of Mirza Shahrukh, the son of Amir Taimur. She was slaia by Sultan Abu Sa'i'd Mirza for creating disturbances, in 1457 A. D., 861 A. H., at Hirat, where she Ues buried on the left bank of a stream called Anjir. The grave is shaded by a very high gilt dome. She is said to have been the most incomparable lady in the world. Some erro- neously say that she was the daughter of Amir Taimur, and the sister of Shahrukh Mirza, and that she never married, but devoted herself to the perusal of the Kuran, vide Mohan Lai's Journal. Goya, ^- y ■, poetical name of Hisam-uddaula Nawab Fakir Muhammad Khan of Lakhnau. He is the author of a Diwan. Goya, the poetical name of Mirza Kamran, a brother of Joya, which see. Goya, ■) poetical name of Shaikh Haiat-ullah of Fur- rukhabad. Gujar, y^}^ ■> grandson or son of the daughter of the Peshwa Eagho]! Bhosla's daughter. Jle was raised to the masnad of Nagpfir after the dethronement of 'Apa Sahib in 1818 A. D. Gulab Singh., V > of Jammu (Maharaja) the in- dependent ruler of Kashmir and the hUls, which were made over to him by the British " for a consideration," after the battle with the Sikhs in 1846. He died 2nd August, 1857 A. D , about three months after the outbreak of the native troops. He was succeeded by his son Eanbir Singh. Gtdbadan Begam, f^^. w'^-J^^, a daughter of the emperor Babar Shah, sister to Humayiin and aunt to 1 Akbar Shah. She was married to Khizir Khan, a descen- dant of the kings of Kashghar. Khizir Khan was made governor of Labor in 1655 A. D., 963 A. H., and after- wards of Behar, where he died about the year 1659 A. D., 966 A. H. Gulbarg Begam, /♦^-^ ^j^^, daughter of the emperor Babar Shah, she is also called Gulrang Begam, and Gul- rukh Begam, which see. Gulcl^ehra Begam, fi^. a a.„.L.» o, emperor Babar Shah and youngest sister of Humayun, by whom she was given ia marriage to Abbas Sultan, an Uzbak prince, at Kabul in 1548 A. D. Gul Muhammad Khan, ci^^ a poet of Dehli who died in the year of the Christian era 1848 A. D., 1264 A. H. His poetical name was Natik, which see. Gulrukh Begam, j*^^ ^^^j a daughter of the emperor Babar, who was married to Mirza Nur-uddfn Muham- mad, a person of respectable family, by whom she had a daughter named Salima Sultana Begam, who was mar- ried in the beginning of the reign of the emperor Akbar, to Beram Khan, Khankhanan, after whose death in 1661 A. D., 968 A. H., the emperor married her himself. Gul- rukh Begam is called in the Masir-ul-Umra, Gulbarg Begam, and by some Gulrang Begam. Gulrukh Begam, a daughter of Kamran Mirza, the brother of the emperor Humayun, and first cousin to Akbar. She was married to Ibrahim Husain jIirza, the son of Muhammad Sultan Mirza a descendant of Amir Taimur. Ibrahim Husaia, who together with his other brothers had created great disturbances in the country, was taken prisoner in 1573 A. D., 981 A. H., and shortly after put to death and his head sent to Akbar, who ordered it to be placed over one of the gates of Agrah. Gulrukh Begam survived him for several years and was living at Agrah in 1614 A. D., 1023 A. H. ' Gulshan, tu*"^^, the poetical name of Shaikh Sa'd-uUah, a mj^stical poet, who resided for some years at Dehli, and left nearly 100,000 verses of Ghazals. He was a disciple of Shah 'Abdul Ahad Sarhindi, and made with him a pil- grimage to Mecca. He died in 1728 A. D., or 1141 A. H. Gulshani, the poetical title of Shaikh Sa'd-ullah, which see. Gunna or Ganna Begam, ^ , a princess, celebra- ted for her personal accomplishments, as well as for the vivacity of her wit, and the fire of her poetical genius. Several of her lyric compositions, in the Hindustani language are still sung and admired, one of which is to be seen in the first volume of the Asiatic Researches, p. 55. She was the daughter of Nawab 'AH KuH Khan commonly called Chhanga or Shash Angushti (from hav- ing six fingers on each hand), a mansabdar of 5000 horse. Ganna Begam was betrothed to Shuja'-uddaula, the son of Nawab Safdar Jang, but afterwards married to 'Imad-ul- Mulk Ghazi-uddin Khan, wazir, and this rivalship is said to have in part laid the foundation of the mortal enmity which afterwards subsisted between that wazir and Safdar Jang. Adjoining to the village of Nurabad near Dhoul- pur, two miles from Chola Sarae, is a pretty large garden, the work of the emperor Alamgir, built in the year 1688 A. D., 1160 A. H., over the gate of which is an inscrip- tion bearing the chronogram of the year of its erection, viz., " Dida Bagh Jamal." "Within this garden is the monument of Ganna Begam. Her shrine bears the fol- lowing inscription, " Ah gham Gunna Begam," which is the chronogram of the year of her death, viz., 1775 A. D., 1189 A. H. The poets, S6z, Souda, and Minnat corrected her verses. Guru Gobind, '^..^ ^J^> the son of Tegh Bahadur, a famous chief of the Sikhs. After the death of his father who was executed by order of the emperor 'Alamgir in the year 1673 A. D., haviag collected his followers, he gave them arms and horses, which till his time they had never used, and began to commit depredations, but he was soon obliged to fly, and two of his sons being taken prisoners, were put to death. Being desirous of returning to his home, he prevailed on some Afghans to conduct him, disguised as one of their devotees, through the army sta- tioned at Sarhind ; and for the remainder of his life kept himself retired, having lost his faculties in grief for his sons. He ordered his disciples to wear blue, and leave their beards and the hair of their heads unshaved, which they do to this day. He was succeeded by Banda, one of his followers. H. Habib Ajmi, Khwaja, c5*?=* <r*i^-=' *^!^, he was called 'Ajmi or the Persian, on account of his not being able to road the Kuran, or that he could not pronounce the words of it distinctly. He was a pious Musalman and dis- ciple of Khwaja Hasan Basrf. He died on the 28th August, 738 A. D., 7th Ramazan, 120 A. H. Habib-uUah, V^-^^', author of an Arabic work on philosophy called " Bahr-ul-Mantik," or the Sea of Logio,
