Indian Antiquary Vol 15

SR No.: 032507
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 446
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 20 MB

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MAY, 1886.)
CHINGHIZ KHAN AND HIS ANCESTORS.
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and the other writers who had to be deferential Burkhan, together with the vessels." The to Timur and his family, bring in the ancestors Yuan-shi says that Li-hien, king of Hia, surrenof that hero on this occasion. They have dered and was taken prisoner to Mongolia." The a story which is quite unknown to the older Yuan-shi-lei-pien says that Li-hien found himauthorities that Kabul Khakan made a compact self driven to the last pass in Ning-hia, and with Kajuli Baghatur (the ancestor of Timur), surrendered at discretion in June, and set out conferring on the latter and his descendants for Liu-pan to humiliate himself before exceptional dignities. At this time the head of Chinghiz. He had hardly left the town when this house was Kharajar Noyan, and we are he was massacred, and his palace and the city assured that Chinghiz had the old compact were sacked." De Mailla says it was in May produced, confirmed Kharajar in his honours when the Tangut ruler surrendered, and that and ordered his sons to do so, and to attach Chinghiz wishing to pass the summer heats in their tainghas to the official document con- the north pat chains upon the unfortunate taining these his last wishes." Chinghiz then prince and took him with him, and thus the went on, according to the Western writers, kingdom of Hia came to an end." to point the moral of his advice by the familiar The author of the Kang-mu thus apostro. anecdote of the strength of a bundle of sticks phizes this event :-"From the beginning of when contrasted with a single one, and then the world no barbarous nation has been so used a more probable simile in quoting the powerful as the Mongols. They tear up nations story of the snake with one tail and many | as if they were plants, to such a degree has heads, which, when the frost came, began to their power grown. Why does heaven permit dispute as to which hole was the safest shelter; it?". The Muhammadan writers, who wrote meanwhile it was killed by the cold, while the under the patronage of the Mongols, tell us Inake with one head and many tails, which that after his great defeat Shidurgho withhaving only one person to please, dragged itself drew to his capital Artakhin, whence he sent in time into a safe retreat.
envoys to Chinghiz, begging that a respite Chinghiz having nominated his brother of a month might be allowed him, when Ochigin to prosecute the war in China, and also he would surrender if his life was spared, and appointed his other sons their due positions, he were counted among the chief's sons. Chinset out on his last campaigo." At this point ghiz consented to this, and promised to treat him the authorities differ. The Yuan-ch'ao-pi-shi as his son. This month, it seems, had not says that the ruler of Tangut appeared before expired when Chinghiz died, and he left orders to him and presented him with golden idols, his generals to keep his death & secret, and when golden and silver vessels, boys, girls, horses the king came out of the city as agreed upon, and camels, altogether to the number of to kill him and put the people of Ning-hia to nino times nine. Chinghiz allowed him to do the sword. This was faithfully carried out homage, but he himself sat behind the screen. after his death." While this was going on he became sick. Minhaj-i-Saraj has a curious account of this On the third day he changed the name of last campaign of Chinghiz. He tells us the Burkhan into Shidurgho, and commanded Tolun ruler of Tangut had a large army and war to kill him. He said to Tolun, “When at the materials without end, and on account of the beginning of the Tangutan war I fell from my number of his troops, the power of his servants, horse during a hunting expedition, you being the width of his dominions, and the vastness troubled about my health suggested that I of his wealth and treasures, he had adopted should return, but in consequence of the insolent the name of Tengri Khân. The Mongols remarks of my enemy I waged war on him, had several times invaded his borders, but had and by the aid of heaven I have subdued him. not subdued him, while he had more than once Take for yourself the movable property of defeated Chinghiz Khản in battle. When the
TH Erdmann, pp. 442 and 443. 1. Erdmann, pp. 442 and 43. 10 Op. cit. pp. 131-152. Douglas, p. 103.
* Gaubil, pp. 50 and 51.
* Op. cit. Vol. IX. p. 126. * D'Ohsson, Vol. 1. p. 881, note. # D'Ohsson, Vol. I. pp. 380-381. Erdmann, p. 110. 6 l.e. the Divine Khan.