________________
282
THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(OCTOBER, 1882.
are writing about their Chief was called quished people here and there, and subdued Arslan.1
them, but he has not ventured to come against The Yuan-ch'ao-pi-shi tells us that Chinghizme. "A hero is born in a house, but dies in a Khận ordered Khubilai" to wage war against field," says the proverb. Chinghiz marched the Kharluut. Thereupon their Chief submit- against Arslan in the Ga mouse year, i.e., 1204. ted and went in person to him. He gave him a A battle ensaed at Sara Kegul (P corruption daughter in marriage.” The Yuan-shi tells us of Issikul). Mukhali Noyan of the Jelairs, merely that A-si-lan, Chief of the Ha-la-la, sub- Siki Khütuk of the Tartars, Chambar Darkhan mitted with all his followers. He was made of the Sultes (i. e. Saldus), Setzen Beki who a prince in possession (tsiun van), and was commanded 10,000 of the Khorlas or Kurulas entrusted with the government of his people." and Jamuka of the Wajirad (i. e. Chamukha The Huang-yuan agrees with the Yuan-ch'ao- of the Jajirad) led the Mongol army. Arslan pi-shi that this submission took place after was killed and his people subdued. It would Chinghiz Khân had sent Khubilai Noyan be curious to know whence Ssanang Setzen against the Karluks. In this Rashidu'd-dîn derived this account. As we have seen, one of also agrees, adding that Khubilai belonged to the chief towns of the Karluks was probably the tribe of the Berulas. He adds that Kayalik. Kayalik, as Colonel Yule and others Chinghiz gave Arslan a princess of his house in have urged, was situated not far from the modern marriage and also the title of Sart, that is," Kopal, and it is curious to find that in a kurgan says Rashid, "the Tajik," for, said the Mongol or tumulus at Kopal a Tartar in 1857 found a Chief, "we cannot give him the title of Khân."87 gold ring and some precious stones, the ring Sartol was the name applied by the Mongols to bore the inscription Arslan." the Muhammadans. They are always so called I ought to add that although the authorities in the Yuan-ch'ao-pi-shi." Ssanang Setzen uses state that Arslan married Chinghiz Khan's the form Sartaghol in a similar way, thus be daughter I cannot avoid thinking that it was applies it to the empire of the Khuarezm rather some princess of his house, or perhaps Shahs which he also calls the five districts of one of his natural daughters. He is certainly the Sara Sartaghol." He also calls Chagatai not named as the husband of any of the five the Khan of Sartaghol. Ssanang Setzen has daughters Chinghiz Khan had by his wife an account of the subjection of the Karluks Burte Fujin." The Yuan-shi in chapter CIX. which is quite at issue with the other notices, containing a table of the princesses says Arslan he says Arslan Khakan of the Kharligod was a married a Mongol princess. It is possible that very haughty man and a great boaster. He is he has been confused with his grandson Arslan said to have remarked-They say of this Chief who did marry a daughter of Juchi, Chinghiz and Bogda called Temujin that he has van. | Khân's eldest son."
FOLKLORE FROM KASHMIR.
COLLECTED BY MRS. F. A. STEEL. WITH NOTES BY LIEUT. R. C. TEMPLE, B.S.C., F.R.G.S., M.R.A.S., &c.
(Continued from p. 261.) No. 5.---FOLK-TALE.
Khân: but because he was so small and weak Fateh Khán, the Valiant Weater. and ridiculous, the people called him Fattu, Once upon a time there lived a little weaver, little Fattu the weaver.' with a big head and thin legs, by name Fatteh But for all his small size Fattu was brave,
Erdmann, Vollstaendige Uebersicht, etc. p. 70; Te. See Erdmann, Temudechin, p. 445. mudschin, etc. p. 246.
· Bretachneider, p. 145 note 272. #1 That is Khubilai Noyan mentioned on a previous Temudschin, p. 246. occasion. Op. cit., pp. 130 and 131.
Told by a Muhammadan at Sopar whose great-grand** Id. note 490 by Palladius; Douglas, p: 60: Hyacinthe, father, grand-father and father had been mullahs. p.45. # Op cit., p. 182.
Compare with the common English story of "The H0 Not Seriaki as D'Ohsson has misread the word, Valiant Little Tailor," in which the hero kills seven flies
* Bretschneider, op. cit. pp. 145 and 146; D'Ohason, at one blow.-F.A.S. vol. I., pp. 217 and 218, note.
In common practice every full Hindu and Musal. Bretschneider, op. cit. note 375.
man name has two diminutives ending in 4 and u. * Op. cit., pp. 85, 87 and 111. " Op. cit., p. 89. Persons of no social standing, but of respectability, are
" Trane, of the Russian Geog. Soc. 1867, vol. I, p. 290; addressed by the one onding in 4, the poor and insigni Bretschneider, Notices, etc. p. 145 note.
ficant by that in u, e.g. Shiv Rim or Shiv Dyal or Shiv
