The Rashīdī History 17.2

17.2

Soon after this, Isan Bugha Khan died, and there was no Khan left of the tribe of Moghul. Every man acted for himself, and ruin and disorder began to creep in among the people. Amir Bulaji Dughlat, an ancestor of the humble narrator, determined on discovering a Khan, and restoring order to the State; so he sent a certain Tash Timur to find Dukhtui Sharawal, and to obtain what information he could, concerning Manlik and her child; telling Tash Timur that if it were a boy, he was to steal the child away and bring it back with him. Tash Timur replied: "It is a very long and tedious expedition, and fitting preparations for the journey must be made. I beg of you to supply me with six hundred goats, that we may first drink their milk and then kill and eat them, one by one." Amir Bulaji complied with his wishes and supplied him with all that was necessary. Tash Timur then set out. He journeyed for a long while in Moghulistan, and by the time he came upon the party of Dukhtui Sharawal, there was but one goat remaining, and that was a brown one [kahud]. On his inquiring after Manlik and her child, they replied that she had borne a son, and that she had a second son by Dukhtui Sharawal; the name of the Khan's son was Tughluk Timur, and the name of the son of Sharawal was Inchumalik. Finally Tash Timur succeeded in carrying off Tughluk Timur, and returned to the Amir with him.