The Nāṣirī Generations 249.1

249.1

I. Bu-zanjar. Alan-Kuwa, the widow, having given birth to three sons at once, fathered on the mysterious light, according to the fabulous tale just narrated, the youngest of the brothers, according to some writers, and the eldest of the three, according to others, who was named Bu-zanjar which some write Abu-zanjar and Bu-zanjar which is said to signify Badshah-i-Mu'azzam — Great Sovereign — and who is the ninth ancestor of the Chingiz Khan, and fourteenth of Amir Timur, in due time succeeded to the chieftainship over the Mughals; and, as I wish to compress as much as possible, I will only mention that the other two sons of Alan-Kuwa — the eldest and second sons — became the progenitors of the Qataghan and Saljiut tribes, and whose descendants, together with those of Bu-zanjar himself, are designated Nurun — from nur — light, which some authors write, Nairun. The whole of the Mughal Khans [one copy of the Tarikh-i-Jahan-gir adds — “and all the Sultans of Turkistan”] trace their descent from Bu-zanjar, but, really, the whole of his descendants are Mughals only on the mother's side, unless the father, of which there can be no doubt, was a Mughal also.