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The Gardezi states that, in 415 H., Mahmud-i-Sabuk-Tigin reached Balkh with the intention of crossing the Jihun into Mawara-un-Nahr, to deliver the Musalmans from the tyranny of 'Ali-Tigin, ruler of Bukhara, and one of the Afrasiyabi Khans, upon which, Yusuf-i-Kadr Khan, who was the Salar of all Turkistan and the great I-lak Khan, hearing of Mahmud's having crossed, left Kashghar and came to Samrkand. He then proceeded to meet Mahmud \[see pages 116-118\]; and they entered into a fresh treaty. 'Ali-Tigin \[this is the person referred to at page 121, which see\], hearing of this, fled to the desert \[the steppes E. of the Sihun\]. Fasih-i, however, says this took place in 419 H. It was at this time that Mahmud seized Isra'il, the Saljuq, and sent continued to dwell, without violence or disturbance, in peace and tranquillity. ### [256.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.256.1.2) him off to Hind \[Kalinjar in the Panjab\]. In 416 H. \[Fasih-i, 419 ?\], Jaghar Beg, Abu Suliman-i-Da'ud \[also called Da'ud-i-Jaghar Beg. See page 116. Here are some more izafats showing how they are used, and the necessity of their use\], son of Tughril or Tughril Beg, son of Mika'il, son of Saljuk \[the Gardezi styles the Saljuks Turks and Turk-mans indiscriminately\], broke out, left the Bukhara territory and the Sughd of Samrkand, and retired into Khwarazm \[see page 121\], with the consent of Sultan Mahmud, but not the approbation of his ministers. In 417 H., envoys came to Ghaznin, to Sultan Mahmud, from Kaya \[?\] Khan, and Bughra Khan, requesting a matrimonial alliance. Mahmud replied that he was a Musalman and they were infidels, and that it was not the custom to give the sisters and daughters of Musalmans to infidels, but that, if they would embrace Islam, the matter would be considered. These chiefs were Kadr Khan's brothers. Subsequently it was agreed that Zainab, the Sultan's daughter, should be betrothed to the son of Kadr Khan, who was then styled Yughan-Tigin, and afterwards took the title of Bughra Khan, and a daughter of Kadr Khan was betrothed to Muhammad, but subsequently to Mas'ud, Sultan Mahmud's eldest son. Kadr Khan died in the year 423 H., and was succeeded by ### [256.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.256.1.3) IX. Arsalan Khan, son of the Bughra Khan \[No. IV.\] who was, at that period, Lord of Kashghar, Khutan, Khujand, and Bilasa-ghun, now succeeded to the sovereignty, but, between him and his own brother, Bughra, hostility arose, and the latter overcame Arsalan, and made him captive. Arsalan is the person to whom Sultan Mas'ud of Ghaznin sent a despatch after the battle of Dandankan, mentioned in note 1, page 94. X. The Bughra Khan, son of Kadr Khan, who was Lord of Banki, or Taraz, and Sinjab \[Isfanjab or Sfanjab, as it is also written. See page 28\], after having overcome his brother, Arsalan, became absolute ruler. The mention of these provinces and countries sufficiently indicates the extent of country under the sway of the Afrasiyabi Maliks. The Bughra Khan nominated his eldest son, Ja'far-Tigin, his heir, on which the mother of Ibrahim, the youngest son, poisoned the Bughra Khan, together with some of his Amirs, and also put an end to Arsalan Khan, who was still in confinement, in 439 H. Bughra, also written with ق for Bughra, is the same well-known Turkish name that is turned into Bagora Khan by Stewart in his History of Bengal, and Baikara by others. ### [256.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.256.1.4) XI. Ibrahim Khan, son of the Bughra Khan, succeeded to the sovereignty after the murder of his father. His mother sent him against Binal-Tigin \[one author has Nial-Tigin\], who used to act rebelliously, and, in the encounter which ensued, Ibrahim was killed, and the family of the Bughra Khan \[No. X\], in the direct line, terminated with him. The year of his death is not mentioned. In 453 or 454 H., Sultan Alb-Arsalan, the Saljuk, undertook the subjugation of Turkistan, but had to return from the frontiers of Kashghar and Bilasa-ghun to the aid of the Khalifah. See page 134. XII. Abu-l-Muzaffar-i-TAF-KAJ \[طفقاج\] Khan, son of another Ibrahim, son of Nasr, who was likewise of the house of Afrasiyab, and whose father had withdrawn from the world, succeeded to the sovereignty. He had previously been ruler of Samrkand, under the sovereign. He died of paralysis in 460 H. XIII. Shams-ul-Mulk \[some Muluk\] the Khakan, Nasr, son of Taf-kaj Khan, succeeded his father, and the daughter of Sultan Alb-Arsalan, the Saljuk, was married to him, and the daughter of 'Isa, his brother, was married to Alb-Arsalan's son, afterwards Malik Shah. The Shams-ul-Mulk, died in Zi-Ka'dah, 472 H. XIV. Khan, brother of the Khakan, Nasr, succeeded to the throne, but very soon after died. ### [256.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.256.1.5) XV. Ahmad Khan, son of Khizr Khan, succeeded to his father, but used to act in such a manner that Sultan Malik Shah had to march into Mawara-un-Nahr, in 482 H. to coerce him. He defeated him, and sent him away to Isfahan, to the care of his aunt, Turkan Khatun, Alb-Arsalan's daughter. After a time Sultan Malik Shah restored him to the sovereignty; but in 488 H. he was put to death on being accused of heresy. The Rauzat-us-Safa states that Sanjar gave the throne to Arad's son, Nasr by name. XVI. Mahmud Khan, uncle's son of Ahmad Khan, succeeded to the throne of Mawara-un-Nahr and Turkistan; and, in the year 490 H., Dabuli — \[ دابولی \] — i-Tughan Khan, son of Kara Khan, marched an army against him and slew him. Who he was does not appear. XVII. Kadr Khan, son of 'Umr Khan, son of Ahmad Khan, succeeded him. In 495 H. he became ambitious of possessing himself of part of Khurasan, and invaded it. In Sha'ban of that year he was encountered by Sultan Sanjar \[this was long before Sanjar became supreme ruler of the Saljuk empire\] near Tirmiz, and was defeated, taken prisoner, and put to death. He is called Kunduz Khan elsewhere. XVIII. Muhammad Khan \[some, by mistake, call him Ahmad Khan\] to whom the title of Arsalan was assigned, son of Suliman by a sister of Sultan Sanjar, son of Da'ud, son of the Bughra Khan \[No X.\], and who, for a long time, had been an exile from Mawara-un-Nahr, and dwelling at Marw, at the Court of that Sultan, succeeded to the sovereignty in 495 H. ### [256.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.256.1.6) In 523 H., Sayyid Ashraf, the 'Alawi, and the men of Samrkand, slew Nasr, the son of Arsalan Khan, and openly rebelled against him. Arsalan Khan called upon his uncle, Sultan Sanjar, for aid, who set out in person with an army to succour him. Before Sanjar reached Samrkand, Arsalan Khan had suppressed the outbreak; and he despatched an emissary to make apologies to the Sultan \[not wishing him to come seemingly\]. This conduct did not please Sanjar, and he continued his advance towards Samrkand. Arsalan Khan was also accused of sending persons to assassinate the Sultan. The latter invested Samrkand, took it in 524 H., imprisoned him, and sent him off to Marw, to his mother, Sanjar's sister. Muhammad-i-Arsalan Khan, son of Suliman, was restored to the sovereignty of Mawara-un-Nahr by his uncle, Sultan Sanjar, in 526 H. Most of the authors I have taken this account from style him Muhammad as before, and one calls him Mahmud \[his son\], but Fasih-i, and some others, distinctly call him Ahmad — and the context proves it correct— but they give 530 H. as the date of his restoration. This can scarcely be correct, as his son succeeded in 526 H. What subsequently became of him is not stated, nor is the year of his death recorded. ### [256.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.256.1.7) The Tarikh-i-Alfi, the accounts in which are generally derived from the best authorities, without mentioning who he was or where he ruled, states that Kadr Khan invaded Mawara-un-Nahr, at the head of a large army, with the object of conquering it and Turkistan, and that Arsalan Khan, Muhammad, time, and their offspring and posterity had become nume- unable to cope with him, fled into Khurasan to Sultan Sanjar for protection, and gave the Sultan a daughter in marriage. Sultan Sanjar marched into Mawara-un-Nahr, overthrew Kadr Khan, put him to death, and restored Arsalan to his throne again. ### [256.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.256.1.8) After a short time, a number of the ghans of the Turks became hostile to Arsalan; and, unable to resist them, he again fled to Sanjar for help, and again the Sultan restored him, after punishing his enemies. The soldiery of Arsalan Khan were principally of the two septs of Karlughiah Turks, and Ghuzz; and the former, having been intrigued with, and gained over by Ashraf, the 'Alawi, son of Muhammad-i-Abi-Shuja', the Samrkandi, to combine with Nasr Khan, Arsalan’s son, the 'Alawi incited Nasr Khan to dethrone his father. Arsalan Khan gained intimation of the plot, and forthwith put his son, and the 'Alawi to death. After this, Arsalan regarded the Karlughiah with hostility, and they looked upon him with dread. At last, they combined to destroy him; and Arsalan had again to fly to Sultan Sanjar. He marched towards Samrkand to quell this outbreak, upon which, the Karlughiah took to flight and retired to the mountains. Another version of these events is, that Arsalan Khan had located 12,000 khargahs, or felt tents of Karlughs, equal to that number of families, on his eastern frontier to protect it from the incursions of the Chinese \[Khita-is\], but he had latterly ill-treated them, and they had left his dominions, and retired into the territory of Bilasaghun, the particulars respecting which will be found in the account of the Gur Khans, farther on. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.256.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.256.1) · Pramāṇa