mumtaz-i-mahal

Updated: June 14, 2025

The inscription in Persian characters over the archway, "Only the Pure in Heart May Enter the Garden of God," is enough to assure one that Arjmand Banu, "The Exalted One of the Palace," whose dust it was built to shelter, was a queen as beautiful in character as she was in form and feature. We know but little about her. "Mumtaz-i-Mahal," they called her "Pride of the Palace."

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