Indian Antiquary Vol 11

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[MARCE, 1882.
should learn it. This was very influential in Kharadalkhujaar, in which he defeated him and two ways. In the first place, it enabled the Mon pursued him to Saarikeer, and conquered his gol chiefs to communicate freely with the Turk- people. Tokhta with his sons Khudu and ish hordes which formed the greater part of Chilaun and several followers escaped by flight." their armies, and thus to create a certain soli- The Yuan-shi says he escaped to Tayang's darité between the Turks and the Mongol aristo- brother, who is there called Boro Khân." cracy which ruled them, and secondly, it greatly The Huang-yuan calls the place where this facilitated the introductiou and spread of Bud- struggle with the Merkit took place Bulanadhism, which was the religion of the Uighurs. uikha near the sources of the Dere.
Let us now revert again to our story. The When Chinghiz attacked the Merkit we are name of the eldest son of Tayang Khân is told in the Yuan-chao-pi-shi that one of their written Gachulak in the Yuan-chao-pi-shi, chiefs named Dairusan, who belonged to the Kashlak Khân by Berezine, Gushlug Khân by tribe Khoasi, determined to present his daughter Erdmann, and Guchluk Khân by D'Ohsson. Khulan to him. As he was on this errand, he According to Rashida'd-din, the name in met a man of the race of Baarin, named Naya, Turkish means 'powerful padishah.' Schmidt who remarked how ansafe the roads were from apparently makes it Mongol, and says that it the ansettled state of the country, and when he should be written Küchülik, meaning the | heard what Dairasan's errand was, he asked to strong, the powerful."
be allowed to accompany him and to join in In the Yuan-chao-pi-shi we read that on his presenting the maiden. They therefore lived father's defeat Guchuluk with some horsemen together for three days, and then Khulan was left the neighbourhood of the river Tamir and duly presented to the Mongol chief. When escaped to the Altai, where he was reduced to Chinghiz learnt that she had lived with Naya extremity." Rashidu'd-din makes him escape for three days, he said angrily after strictly to his uncle Buyuruk Khân. In the Yuan- examining him, that he must be executed. He shi we are further told that he had a son was accordingly put to the torture, but Khulan named Chan-un who fled to the Khitai" and interceded for him, and said that he had volandied there, while his wife, of the tribe Kankali, teered his services when there was great danger with her son Chao-si, surrendered to Chinghiz on account of the unsettled state of the roads, Khan." The Yuan-ch'ao-pi-shi tells us that at and had for this reason alone offered her an the same time, the tribes who had followed asylum. As to her innocence he bade Chinghiz Chamukha, namely, the tribes Jadalan," Kha- examine the proofs for himself: "Coeli voluntate tagin, etc. also submitted to him." The Yuan- a parentibus nata epiderma tota conservata shi tells us the tribes who thus surrendered est; interroga potius epidermam," as Palladins were the Durban Tartars, the Khatagins and gives it. Khulan also appealed to his master. Saljiut. In this De Mailla and the Huang- He protested how he deemed it to be his duty to yuan concur. Chinghiz Khân also summoned find beautiful maidens and beautiful horses for Gorbyesu, Tayang's mother, to his presence, and him in foreign countries, and that if he had said jeeringly to her, "You said that the Dada any ulterior thoughts beyond this, he hoped he were a stinking race, why then do you come should die. Chinghiz was pleased with the here P" He then ordered her to join his harem." answer, and having satisfied himself that Khulan Chinghiz Khân now determined to crush the was in fact innocent, he released Naya, sayingMerkit, who had been in alliance with the "This is an irreproachable man; we may hereNaimans in the recent battle. Accordingly in the after entrust him with important affairs." autumn succeeding his struggle with Tayang, Apropos of this story Palladius tells us that one of he marched against the Merkit chief, Tokhta, the sayings attributed to Chinghiz Khân by hisand fought a battle with him in the district of torians is-"Everybody loves beauty and noble » Seanang Setzen, note 40, page 383.
50 Too-urh-pun, Tatar Ho-to-kin and Sa-lab-choo-tih*. Op. cit., pp. 107 and 108.
Douglas, p. 18; Hyacinthe, p. 84. 25 Erdmann, p. 305; D'Oheson, vol. I, p. 90.
31 Yuan-chao-pi-shi, p. 108 and note 398. 16 i. e. the Kara Khitai.
99 Id., p. 108. 11 Yuan.ch'ao-pi-shi, note 897.
33 1. e. to Buirok Kb&n. 3 ? Jadjerat.
** Douglas, p. 48; Hyacinthe, p. 84. 19 Id., p. 108.
» Op. cit., p. 179.