thumb|300px|Wedding procession of Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah with Bhagmati. Bhagamati (Hyder Mahal), also known as Bhagyawati, was a queen of Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, in whose honour Hyderabad was supposedly named. The historicity of her existence is debated among scholars.
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thumb|300px|Wedding procession of Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah with Bhagmati. Bhagamati (Hyder Mahal), also known as Bhagyawati, was a queen of Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, in whose honour Hyderabad was supposedly named. The historicity of her existence is debated among scholars.
== Popular narrative == Bhagmati was born in 'Chichlam' (a location yet to be identified with certainty) to a Hindu family; she was a local nautch-girl. Qutb Shah met her whilst out for a ride, fell so deeply in love that he constructed the Purana Pul bridge to ensure he could meet with her regularly, and entered into a marriage. He founded a city at her birth-place and named it Bhaganagar or Bhāgyanagar in her honor. After she converted to Islam and adopted the title Hyder Mahal, the city was renamed Hyderabad.
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