The Nāṣirī Generations 248.4.3

248.4.3

At this point the different writers I have been quoting mention the boundaries and limits of the Mughal country — Mughalistan. “It lies,” they say, “a long way east, and far from cultivated countries, and is seven or eight months' journey (in extent),” some say it is a year’s journey. The Mughals lived in forests and wilds, their food was from the animals of the chase, and the produce of their flocks and herds, and their garments the skins thereof. The extreme eastern limit was the frontier of Khita, on the west it adjoined the country of the I-ghurs. On the north it extended as far as the country of the Kirghiz — [the Akbar Namah has Farghanah which is absurd] which is also written Kirghiz — and and Kirghiz — and — being interchangeable, and Salingae — [the country towards the River Salingah is evidently meant here], and south it reached to the frontiers of Tibbat. Our author says the forces of the Chingiz Khan had to undertake a three months’ march through “the wilderness,” or steppe, from the place where he assembled his host on hearing of the massacre of his emissaries and merchants by the Khwarazmis, to enable them to reach the Utrar frontier.