The Nāṣirī Generations 248.1.8

248.1.8

But, as all this happened 1000 years—taking the most moderate period—after Aghuz Khan, and as Faridun, father of Tur, was contemporary, they say, with the patriarch Ibrahim, who was born in his reign, Aghuz Khan must, according to those chronicles, have flourished very far back indeed, and anterior to Nuh’s flood. Abu-l-Ghazi, whose history, as previously mentioned, is the most modern of those named at the beginning of this account, relates these events differently. Khuzistan, the Diyar-i-Bakr, and Mausil, as far as the He says that I-yal or Il Khan and Sundz Khan were continually at war with each other, and the former was always victorious, but it must be remembered that Abu-l-Ghazi sprung from the Mughal i-mak. Sundz Khan had therefore to seek aid from the Khan of Kar-kir or Kar-kiz, who was a very powerful ruler, and he also worked so much upon other tribes, the neighbours of I-yal Khan, that they too combined with him. I-yal Khan, in consequence, took up a very advantageous position which he strengthened so much, that the confederates were unable to force it, but, having placed their best soldiers in ambuscade, pretended flight, to draw the Mughals from their stronghold.