The Nāṣirī Generations 245.1

245.1

[As our author relates here the various prophecies respecting the end of the world, of which the irruption of the Mughals was one of the chief indications, I need scarcely follow him; since the world has not yet come to an end, although more than six centuries have elapsed since he foretold it, and closed his history, and, therefore, I may pass over these matters altogether, and begin where he commences his relation of events.] Notwithstanding that, by the will of the Almighty, and the decrees of Destiny, the turn of sovereignty passed unto the Chingiz Khan the Accursed, and his descendants, after the kings of I-ran and Turan, that the whole of the land of which works contains the history of the Mughals more for the purpose of glorifying the author’s master than anything else, as I shall presently show. I. Yafis, son of Nuh, from whom the Turks and all their ramifications claim descent, after coming out of the ark with his father, is said to have been sent, by him, into the farther east, and to have fixed his yurt or encampment, and to have pitched his tent, at a place written in the original—which is somewhat doubtful, in the vicinity of the rivers Atil—the Wolga, which rises in the country of Rus and Bulghar—and Jaik—. He received from his father the famous stone which possessed the virtue of producing rain and other blessings, which stone the Turks call yadak tash, the ’Ajamis, sang-i-yadah, and the ’Arabs hajar-al-matar—the rain-producing stone.