The Nāṣirī Generations 245.3

245.3

Yafis had eight sons:— 1. Turk— 2. Chin— 3. Kamari— 4. Saklab— [also Saklab], 5. Rus— [an ’Usmanli Turkish author, who lately published a work at Paris very correctly contends—according to the historians previously quoted, among whom the Fanakati says his work contains what the Sages, Astronomers, and Chroniclers of the I-ghurs, the people of Tibbat, and the tribes of the Turks relate in their chronicles—that the Russians are not Sclaves—i. e. Saklabs. See also Mascou’s History of the Germans, vol. ii. page 615]. 6. Mansag— also written Mansag—Manj— and Manshij— 7. Taraj— also written Tarakh—Barakh— and even Marakh—from the fourth son of whom is descended Sikandar-i-Zu-l-Karnain, not the Macedonian. 8. Gumari— [Gomer] also styled, by some of the writers quoted, Kimal or Gamal— and Gimal or Kimal— and Gimal or Kimial— [I may repeat here that I always put the most trustworthy names first, in all instances]. Some of these writers, and also the author of the Jami’-i-’Ulum, add the names of three more sons— Khalj— Ghuzz— and Sadkan— but the two first mentioned cannot be sons of Yafis, from what these writers themselves subsequently state respecting the origin of their names, presently to be noticed.