The Nāṣirī Generations 248.4.8

248.4.8

The Majami’-ul-Khiyar distinctly states that this event took place some time after the 200th year of the Hijrah. This is improved upon by Petis de la Croix, in his “Life of Genghizcan the Great,” page 6, who says that the Cayat [Kaiat?] derived their name “from a certain people who lived in the remotest Northern Parts of Mogolistan which were called Cayat, because their Chief had heretofore erected a Foundry for Iron-work in a mountain called Arkenekom, which gained them a great Reputation, and made this Branch of the Moguls highly esteemed, by the great advantage all the Moguls Country received from this Invention ; they therefore called these people the Arkenekom-Smiths.” This is history with a vengeance ! the year 658 H., when this work was brought to a conclusion. Their former country had been in the meantime occupied by tribes of the Tattar I-mak, and other Turks, and the Mughals fought with them, and drove them out. The former, consequently, had to seek other tracts. Some went away to the eastward, while others went west, and south, and north; and, about this period, we find a great movement among the Saljuqs and the Ghuzz in a south-westerly direction.