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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. ### [249.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.249.2) The descendants of Alan-Kuwa’s legitimate sons, by her husband, are styled by the general name of Dural-gin — previously written Dural-gin — Dural-gin — and applied to the descendants of Naguz, whilst, by the different writers’ own accounts, without exception, they, as well as their father and mother, belonged to the Qaiat sept. They are considered lower in rank than the Nurun or Nairun. The majority of writers state that the birth of these sons of light took place in the time of Abu-Muslim, the Marwazi, the proclaimer of the rights of the 'Abbasis to the Khilafat. He was born in 99 H. \[A.D. 717 — 718\] some say in the following year — and he began to advocate the claims of that house in 128 H. \[A.D. 745 — 746\]. Abu-l-Ghazi states that 450 years elapsed between the flight of Qaian and his cousin Naguz and the reign of Bu-zanjar, and, calculating from these dates, their flight would have taken place about 322 years before the first year of the Muhammadan era, that is, about the middle of A. D. 300, but other historians, as I have stated before, mention that the Qaiat and Naguz continued to dwell in Irganah-Qun 400 years, and they say that Bu-zanjar succeeded to the chieftainship, when in his fifteenth year, in informants, the events of the Muhammadan territory, and Rabi’-ul-Awwal, but no year is given. One work, however, the “Shajarah-ul-Atrak,” states that it was on the 1st of that month in the year 130 H. ### [249.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.249.3) Abu-l-Fazl, in the Akbar Namah, as before mentioned, says the Mughals came out of Irganah-Kun at the end of the reign of Nushirwan, but he died in A.D. 579, about forty-three years previous to the year of the Flight or Hijrah, but Abu-l-Ghazi gives neither month nor year. Fasihi, on the contrary, states, that Alan-Kawa gave birth to Bu-zanjar and his brothers in the year 376 H. \[middle of A.D. 986\], and this, coupled with the statement in the Majami'-ul-Shiyar, that the Kaiat and Naguz issued from Irganah-Kun some time after H. 200 \[A.D. 815—816\], doubtless, is the correct date. Now, if we add 400 to 579—the date of Nushirwan’s death, and suppose that the date of Kaian and Naguz entering Irganah-Kun, instead of the date of leaving it, we shall have 979 years, and, if we take 400 years from A.D. 986—the year mentioned by Fasihi, namely 376 H., we shall have 407 years remaining, and this seems, to me, to show that the flight of the two fugitives and their wives took place about the middle of Nushirwan's reign, and not their issuing from Irganah-Kun, which took place some time after H. 200 \[A.D. 815—816\], and, if we allow the average of thirty years for each generation, and consider that Bu-zanjar was the great grandson of Yal-duz or I-yal-duz, we shall not be far from the year 376 H. \[A.D. 986\]. ### [249.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.249.4) More events are assigned to the period of Abu-Muslim than can be credited, and this is the period our author assigns to the rise of the Shansabanis of Ghur. The date given by Fasihi, for the birth of Bu-zanjar, is 186 years previous to the death of the Chingiz Khan's father, the eighth in descent from Bu-zanjar, an average of little more than twenty years to each, but 130 H. for the accession of Bu-zanjar gives an average, to the death of the Chingiz Khan’s father, of exactly fifty-four years to each reign. On the other hand Bu-zanjar was third in descent from Yal-duz or I-yal-duz. Bu-zanjar, who is styled Ka’an, framed laws and regulations, and divided the Mughals into tribes as they still existed at the period when the different authors I have named, with the exception of Abu-l-Ghazi, and Abu-l-Fazl, wrote their accounts. The Tarikh-i-Jahan-gir and a few other histories likewise state, that some of the Tattar chiefs and Amirs of other tribes which, for a long period of time, had been ruled by their own chiefs, now submitted to Bu-zanjar authority, and acknowledged his suzerainty, but this, it must be remembered, is a Mughal account. Bu-zanjar at his death, of which no date is given, left two sons, Buka—also written Bukka—and Bukae—and Tuka—also written Tukia—and Tukae—. The latter had a son named Ma-Chin. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.249](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.249) · Pramāṇa