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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(JULY, 1881.
would be interesting to collect others. For the present, let students of Archæology choose for themselves. By and by, no doubt, further light will be thrown on the origin of archaic Indian symbolism till inuch that is now dark enough becomes plain. For myself, I boldly range my- self under Mr. Thomas's son-standard ; and I cherish the conviction that many of the signs
and symbols venerated amongst the Indian races, both Buddhistic and Brâhmaņical, will hereafter be traced to an origin in a (80-called) "primæval" sun-worship, existent in Central or Western Asia prior to the migration of the Aryans, and possibly drawing much of its ceremonial from Chaldea, Assyria, and even Egypt.
CHINGHIZ KHAN AND HIS ANCESTORS.
BY HENRY H. HOWORTH, F.S.A. (Continued from p. 180.)
whose jealousy we are told was thus kindled.' The rising fortunes of Chinghiz Khân This story appears in none of the older authoriand the ambitions which success naturally ties. De la Croix quotes part of it from creates began to affect his intercourse with his Abulfaraj, but I can nowhere find it in his quondam patron Wang Khân, and we have works, either in the Syriac or Arabic chronicle. now to relate the story of the jealousies and In the latter there is merely the bare statement quarrels which ended in the destruction of the that Chinghiz married & daughter of Wang latter.
Khân.• He quotes the rest from the Turkish The Yuan-ch'ao-pi-shi tells us that when but author Abu'l-k hair, who died in 1554, and who seven years old Wang Khan was captured was the main authority followed by him. Von by the Merkit and made to grind grain, and Hammer, who treats the whole account as a fable, that when 18 years old he, with his mother, were says, however, that it is met with earlier than seized by the Tartars and made to tend cattle.' in the pages of Abu'l-khair, namely, in the We have seen how on his father's death he put Mokademmei Zafar Námeh of Sherifa'd-dinah two of his brothers to death, and then had to of Yezd, 1424 A. D., in Khuandemir's Habiles tly, and how he was reinstated by Yessagei, Siyer, and in the Tarikhi Haidari." Chinghiz Khan's father.
Wang Khân was clearly of a turbulent Petis de la Croix relates a saga of how when disposition, and we next find him trying to kill Temujin was 20 years old, he fled from his his brother, Erkhe Khara, who fled to Inanj, the enemies and sought shelter with Wang Khan chief of the Naimans, who collected an army who was living at Karakorum, and who and drove him away. He thereupon sought received him well, having heard from Khara- shelter with the Gurkhs of Kara Khitai, char Noyan, who filled the office of Chinghiz of whom we shall have more to say further Khan's tutor, the story of his persecution by his on. He sought him on the river Chui. In less premies. Wang Khan promised to support than a year he quarrelled with the Gurkhan him and to bring the recalcitrant tribes which and returned once more to Mongolia through the would not obey him to their duty. We are told country of the Uighurs and Tangut. On this further that he called his young friend, son, journey, according to the Yuan-ch'ao-pi-shi, he placed him above the princes of the blood, lived on the milk of five ewes, and also drank the committed to him the conduct of his armies in blood of a cainel, which he obtained by piercing the war he had against the Khân of Tendu c!" its body. The Huang-yuan says he tied the and undertook nothing without his counsel. He ewes with a cord; and he also says he boiled the also gave him his daughter Wisu lajin in blood he got from the camel for food.' He made marriage. She had been loved by Chamukha his way to the camp of Chinghiz Khan at whom she rejected in favour of his rival, and Guser. This place is no doubt the same as the Op. cit., p. 76.
• Gesch. der gold. Horde, pp. 61, 62. The introduction • Tenduch was Wang Khan's own country, probably to the Zafar Námeh mentioned above, is the work trans. Tangut is meant.
lated by Colonel Miles, in 1838, with the title Shajrat ul History of Genghiscan the Great, pp. 27-29. See Atrak, and for the whole story just told see that work, p. 87. also Erdmann's Temudschin, pp. 268 and 269
• Op. cit., p. 76. • Op. cit., p. 285.
Op. cit., p. 159.
