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# The Nāṣirī Generations 256.3.3

Tabakat-i-Nasiri 256.3.3

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### [256.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.256.3.3)

The family of the person who afterwards rose to sovereignty with the title of the Gur Khan \[“Gorkhan,” “Kawar” and “Gawer,” and “Kur, a form of Gur Khan,” and the like, of European authors, and some European translators, are entirely wrong\] was named Kumkin or Komkin Tae-ghu or Taya-gu, also written Kushtin or Koshtin Tae-tu, or Taya-ku \[the Yeilu Taishi probably of D’Ohsson\], which names might vary a little more according to the vowel points, but not the consonants, except that o and u in the middle or end of a word are interchangeable, and that Turks, Tattars, and Mughals, change p and t into b and d occasionally. I have read the above words according to the usages of the Persian language. Kumkin Tae-ghu's family was one of distinction in those parts, and, long before the time of the Chingiz Khan, and antecedent to the rise of the sovereigns of the Kiurjah or Khorjah dynasty \[Corea of Europeans is here referred to\], forced, through the vicissitudes of destiny, he left his native country along with 80 persons of different tribes or families, and took up his dwelling — pitched his tents — within the borders of Kirghiz or Karkiz, respecting which see the account of the Turks at page 876. This tract is generally mentioned along with Tingkut by most of the authors I have quoted in my note on the descent of the Turks, Tattars, and Mughals.

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