The Nāṣirī Generations 248.1.7

248.1.7

There is little to be gathered from the traditionary history of I-ran respecting these events, and the little that is mentioned is contradictory of the Mughal accounts. Careful comparison of the voluminous traditions of the two peoples might throw some light upon these occurrences, and some day I may attempt it. According to the I-rani accounts, however, Faridun divided his dominions among his sons, and gave Turan—not all Asia east of the Oxus, as modern writers appear to assume—the capital of which is Kashghar, and part of which tract was afterwards called Mawar-un-Nahr by the ’Arabs, Khurz, and Saklab, to Tur, and Turan is so named after him. Some of the I-rani chronicles relate that the Turks are of the seed of Tur, and that Afrasiyab [who is certainly styled “the Turk” by the ’Ajamis] was his great grandson, and that he ruled over the countries east of the Jihun, from the limits of Hind to the frontier of the Turks. Our author, Minhaj-ud-Din, in his account of the I-rani or ’Ajami kings, also says that Afrasiyab was third in descent from Turk, and that his father was Sunj — — which is much the same name as that of Sunj — — Khan, the VIIIth of the Tattar I-mak, which may also be written Sunj, without the long u.