The Nāṣirī Generations 248.1.1

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eldest son of Aghuz, succeeded his father. He ruled over an extensive territory, and acquired predominance over great part of Iran, and died after a reign of eighty years, but some say seventy-three, and some seventy. By advice of his father’s old Wazir, Kabal Khwajah, he made such wise arrangements that each of his brothers and their sons had an appanage conferred upon him, and the place and rank of every one was so specifically assigned that each knew his proper place and his share even to the portion of the sheep at meal times, and this tended to keep them all on a good understanding towards each other. Abu-l-Ghazi says he divided his territory among his brothers and “their twenty-four legitimate sons and natural sons.” He appears to have forgotten that, by his own previous account, four legitimate sons, and as many natural ones, belonged to Kun Khan himself. What he calls a division of dominions is, no doubt, what I have just previously mentioned. V. On the death of Kun Khan, his brother, Ai or A-i Khan, succeeded, and, after a long reign, was succeeded by his eldest son, VI. Yal-duz—Yul-duz—or I-yal-duz. During his rule the people of Mughalistan were flourishing and prosperous. Abu-l-Ghazi, contrary to other writers, says he was not Ai Khan's brother of that name, but merely one of the same family, and says nothing of his being Ai Khan’s son.