________________
90
sented his famous work. Falsely accused of having poisoned Uljaitu, he was put to death by order of the latter's successor Abu Sayyid on the 13th of September 1318."
He tells us in his preface that there existed in the archives (i.e. of the Mongol sovereign of Persia) historical fragments of undoubted authenticity written in Mongol. These he had been ordered by Gazan to consult, as well as learned Chinese, Indians, Uighurs, Kipchaks, and others who lived at his court, and especially the generalissimo and administrator of the kingdom, Pulad Chingsang, "who knows," he says, "better than any one in the world the origin and history of the Turkish tribes, and especially of the Mongols." Elsewhere Rashid speaks of a book called the Altan Defter, or 'Golden Register,' which was deposited in the Imperial treasury under the custody of several officials, and which
Turk
1
Khazar
I
Tunag
Chikal
or Tutak or Jinkal
Ichê Khân
I
Dibbakui Khân
I
Kuyuk or Kiwak Khân
Alinja Khân
Tatar Khân
Nuh 1
Yafis I
Kara Khan
T Oghiz Khân L
THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
Saklab
Mughal Khân I
Bazsinjar or Barsajar
I
Uz Khân or Ur Khân
T Rus
Kun Khân
Yoldaz Khân
Ai Khẩn i.e. Sun Khân i.e. Moon Khân i.e. Star Khân
Il Khan Kian Nokuz D'Ohsson, Histoire des Mongols, vol. I. p. xliii.
[APRIL, 1880.
he refers to as containing a history of the house of Chinghiz Khan. The Altan Defter, as I believe, was either identical with the Yuanch'ao-pi-shi, or contained virtually the same materials.
The servant and panegyrist of a royal house, famous for its zeal in religious matters, it is not strange that Rashida'd-din should have connected it with the patriarchs who are equally prominent in the Bible and the Koran, and have derived it from Nuh and Yafis, and that further he should have found a place for the eponymous representative of the Mongol stock in the strangely artificial and inconsequent ethnographic genealogy, in which, like other Eastern historians, he affiliates together the various branches of the human family known to him. It will suffice us to tabulate the story as given by these curious genealogists.
Ming
Kuz Khân or Kin Khán
Amlak
Chin
Kur Khân or Gur Khân
Gumari or Kimari
Kuk Khân Tagh Khân i.e. Sky Khân i.e. Mountain Khân
Id. pp. xxxv. and xxxvi.
Tarikh
Tenghiz Khan i.e. Lake Khân
⚫ Id. pp. 23 and 24 note 2.
