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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[OCTOBER, 1882.
the snow. My subjects and I will be thy at least, the mention of the river Shen or Tsan at Servants and children, and we will exhaust this time seems also to be a mistake. The fact in thy service our hounds and horses.
is that finding they were not welcome among The sons of Tokhtu, after their defeat on the the Uighurs the Merkit leaders fled westwards. Irtish, went southwards to try and escape to The Yuan-ch'ae-pi-shi says Khudu and Chilaun the Uighur country. They sent messengers went to the Kanlis and Kincha," i.e. the to the Idikut, who put them to death, and then Kankalis and Kipchaks, that is to the country fonght with the Merkit princes on the river west of lake Balkhash, where we shall hear of Tsan, The Idikut sent his officers Asilan- them again. I may add that Rashidu'd-dîn gianki, Bolodi gin, Inan Khaiya and Chanchi to explains idikut as meaning Lord of the country." inform Chinghiz of this battle, who was greatly Abulghazi says it means happy, rich, powerful pleased, and in turn sent Anlubuinyi and Darban (devlet-lik.)" According to the Yuan-shi the to him. The Idikut thereupon sent him pre- same year in which the Uighur chief sent in his cious gifts and local products. This account submission, i.e., in 1209, Chinghiz marched once as usual is very like that given by Rashidu'd more against Hia or Tangut. Ling an tsuen din, who furnishes us however with one or two (called Legan by Douglas), the ruler of Hia, sent more details. According to him the deputy of his son Chain to oppose him, but he was defeatthe Karakhitai, who was killed by the Idikut, ed, and the Tangutan General Kao ling kong was called Shavagum or Shukem. Abulghazi was made prisoner. The Mongols then captured calls him the darugha Shadkem, who had render. Uriankhai (the Waleanghai pass through the ed himself odious by his exactions. He was great wall of Douglas and the U la hai of De put to death in the town of Kara-Khojo. The Mailla). There the Imperial tutor Sebe or Idikut's first envoys who reported his revolt Sepeshe (De Mailla calls him Sipi sse) was made from the Gurkhan of Kara Khitai he calls Khatal- | prisoner. They then fell upon and took the mish Khia, Omar Ughul and Tatari. He tells fortress of Imin or Emun, i.e. the Barbarian's us that the Merkit princes, who were defeated gate). There Wei ming ling kong was made and killed by him, were Jilaun, Jiyukh and prisoner. The Mongols now crossed the Yellow Khultukhun and Khudu the brother of Tokhtu, river and laid siege to Chan Sing, now called the envoy whom these princes sent on to the Ning hia, the capital of Tangut, and probably Idikut to ask his aid, after their defeat on the Calatia of Marco Polo already named. the Irtish he calls Turgan. After killing Finding the place too strong to take by assault, the latter Rashidu'd-dîn makes the Uighur Chinghiz tried to turn the waters of the river chief attack them on the Jem Muran. He into the town, but the artificial banks he had calls the envoys of Chinghiz, Alp Utug and made for the purpose burst and flooded his Durbai, the ambassadors sent by the Idikut own camp. Hyacinthe makes the Tangutans in return he calls Bugush Ais Aighuji and break the dykes, which obliged him to raise the Alain Timur Khutukh. The message they siege. He thereupon sent an envoy into the conveyed is reported by him almost exactly as town to offer terms. These were accepted, and in the Hnang-yuan. Erdmann seems in some the king agreed to give one of his daughters way to have misunderstood his text, for he tells in marriage to the Mongol chief. In the ns that when these envoys went from the Idikut, Yuan-shi-lei-pien we are told that in this others, namely, Arslan Uga, Bulad Tegin, Jarukh campaign Chinghiz Khân forced several posta Uga, and Inal Kia Sungji were despatched by near the great wall west of Ninghia, took the the sons of Tokhtu with their submission. town of Ling-chau, and was determined to There can be no doubt that the statement in the attack the capital of Hia, when the king Yuan-shi that Tokhtu's four sons were killed Ligantsuen submitted and gave him a princesa by the Idikut is a mistake, as to two of them in marriage, whereupon the Mongols made
Op. cit., pp. 181-182. 6 Erdmann, Temudschin, pp. 312-314; D'Ohsson, vol. I, pp. 109-110; Abulghazi, pp. 93 and 94.
Op. cit., p. 110. 03 D Ohneon, vol. I, p. 438. di Op. cit, ed. Desmaisons, p. 94,
Douglas, p. 58 ; Hyacinthe, pp. 41 and 42; De Mailla, tome IX, pp. 42 and 43 ; D'Ohason vol. II, pp. 105 and 106, notes.
* In M. Biot's Dictionary of Chinese Names this is named as an arrondissement to the south-east of Ning hia. Op. cit. p. 109,