The Nāṣirī Generations 256.3.4

256.3.4

Some again say that these 80 persons were his own family and kin, and that they were accompanied by their dependents and followers, who made up a considerable number, and, from their proceedings, this last statement appears the more correct of the two. The Kara-Khita-i fugitives assailed the people of those parts — Kirghiz or Karkiz — and were themselves attacked in return, and hard pressed. On this account the Kara-Khita-is moved away from those tracts, and entered the territory of I-mil — or the territory on the river of that name, and there founded “a city,” in, and about which, the Gur Khan being an exceedingly just and efficient ruler, some 40,000 families, Turks, and numbers of others, soon gathered around him. The remains of that city, the name of which is not given, were still to be traced at the time the Histories I take this account from were written, but, in the time of Mirza Muhammad Haidar, the author of the Tarikh-i-Rashidi, who wrote subsequently — whose work I have partly translated, and of which more hereafter — neither traces of this place nor of the city of Bilasa-ghun were known.