The Institutes of Akbar 272.1

272.1

He belonged to the Arghun clan, and therefore traced his descent to Chingiz Khan. Abulfazl in the Akbarnamah gives his tree as follows:— Chingiz Khan. Tuli Khan. Hulagu Khan (the brother of Mangu Qaan.) Abaqa (or, Abagha) Khan, d. 680. Arghun Khan, d. 690. Four generations intervening. Atki Timur. Several generations not known. Shankal Beg Tarkhan. Mirza Isa Tarkhan. Of his ancestors, Atki Timur had been killed in the war with Toqtamish Khan, and the Emperor Timur took care of Shankal Beg, and made him a Tarkhan (vide the note at the end of this biography). Mirza 'Abdul 'Ali, fourth ancestor of M. Jani Beg, had risen to high dignities under Sultan Mahmud, son of M. Abu Sa'id, and received the government of Bukhara. He was treacherously killed, together with his five eldest sons, by Shaibani Khan Uzbak; only his sixth son, M. Muhammad 'Isa, escaped. The Arghun clan in Bukhara, being thus left without a head, emigrated to Khurasan, where they attached themselves to Mir Zul-nun Beg Arghun, who was the Amirul- Mirza ’Abdul ’Ali Tarkhan. M. Muhammad ’Isa Tarkhan, d. 975. M. Muhammad Baqi Tarkhan, d. 993. Mirza Payandah Muhammad Tarkhan. Mirza Jani Beg Tarkhan. Mirza Ghazi Beg Tarkhan.