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CHAP. IV.] She built a serai at Fardapur, at the foot of the pass, and also founded Baijipura, a suburb of Aurangabad. The misconduct of her sons, Muhammad Sultan and Muazzam, who disobeyed the Emperor under the influence of evil counsellors, embittered her latter life. Her advice and even personal entreaty had no effect on Muazzam, who was at last placed under arrest. Nawab Bai seems to have lost her charms and with them her husband's favour rather early in life, and ended her days some time before the middle of 1691 at Delhi, after many years of separation from her husband and sons.

Another secondary wife was Aurangabadi Mahal, so named because she entered the Mughal harem in the city of

Aurangabad. The bubonic plague carried her off in October or November 1688, at the city of Bijapur.