The Nāṣirī Generations 251.1

251.1

III. ZUTUMIN—or Zutumfn—Zutu-manin—Zutum-Manin—as it is variously written, who was the father of nine sons, one of whom, Kaidu, succeeded to the chieftain-ship. During the time of Zutumin’s chieftain-ship hostilities broke out between the Jala-ir tribe, of the Dural-gin branch of the Mughals, and the Khita-is. The Jala-irs had become a very numerous tribe at this period, and amounted to about 70,000 families, and had pitched their tents on the banks of the river Kalur-An—. The Mughals and Khita-is were always at enmity, and hostilities continued perpetually to go on between them. At the period in question, the latter suddenly the transmission of the Mughal sovereignty from one to resolved to make a raid upon the Jala-irs, but on reaching the river found it too deep to ford. They constructed a temporary bridge, crossed over in the night, fell suddenly upon the Jala-irs, and almost annihilated them. Those that escaped, and other portions of the tribe not then present, fled for shelter into the parts where the other Mughal tribes dwelt.