[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Kashmir](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir) › [Tārīkh-i Rashīdī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi) › [The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross) › 56.4 # The Rashīdī History 56.4 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 56.4 - **Language:** English ### [56.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.56.4) Isan Taishi said \[to Vais Khan, on his being brought before him\] : "This time I will only set you free, on your giving me your sister Makhtum Khanim, as a ransom." There being no help for it, Makhtum Khanim was given to him, and the Khan was set at liberty. It is commonly reported that the Khan had sixty-one engagements with the Kalmaks : once only was he victorious ; on every other occasion he was put to rout. (But God alone knows the truth.) I have frequently heard from Maulana Khwaja Ahmad that the Khan was a very powerful man, and that he used, every year, to go hunting wild camels in the country round Turfan, Tarim, Lob and Katak, which places I have spoken of in the Second Part. When he killed a camel he would skin it with his own hands, and take the wool to his mother Sultan Khatun ; the Khatun would spin it and make it into shirts and breeches for him, which he wore with sumptuous robes outside. In Turfan water is very scarce, and it was the Khan himself who irrigated the land. He did not get his water from any stream, but having dug a deep well, drew from it a supply of water for irrigation. Khidmat Maulana told me the following story of his uncles, who used to say: "We have often seen the Khan, during the hot season, with the help of his slaves, drawing water from the well in pitchers \[kuzak\], and pouring it himself over the land." His agriculture was carried out on such a small scale, that the produce of it never attained the value of an ass's load ; - [Previous: 56.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.56.3) - [Next: 56.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.56.5) - [Up: 56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.56) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.56.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.56.4) · Pramāṇa