The Nāṣirī Generations 248.5.4

248.5.4

Nush-Tigin-i-Gharjah, the founder of the Khwarazmi empire, claimed descent from Aghuz through this very Bilkadae or Bilgadae. See note to page 231, para. 4], but these names are somewhat doubtfully written and may not be quite correct. According to the same authority, both died before him, and he gave to the son of one of them, named Do-yun or Doi-un Byan — or Do-yun Bayan — which is also written Dubun — Diyun — and in other ways, the daughter of the other son, who was named Alan-Quwa, a damsel of great beauty and talent, in marriage. Abu-l-Ghazi however differs from the preceding this much that he says the husband of Alan-Quwa, who was Yal-duz's grandson, did not succeed to the sovereignty because he had not attained the age of thirty, and died soon after his father, leaving two sons — named as above — by Alan-Quwa ; and that she acted as regent only, while others say that her husband was chief over some few ulus, and that the Turks generally were under various independent chiefs. The Tarikh-i-Jahan-gir however says that Alan-Quwa was given in marriage by her father, Ju-inah, to her uncle’s son, as stated by the others, and that, by him, she had two sons named Bilkadi or Bilgadi and Bakjadi or Bagjadi, and after his death she assumed the sovereignty and occupied herself in the nurture of her two sons. At this time she dwelt near the upper sources of the Kalur-An river.