[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate) › [Ṭabaqāt-i Nāṣirī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri) › [Tabakat-i-Nasiri](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty) › 256.4.1 # The Nāṣirī Generations 256.4.1 Tabakat-i-Nasiri 256.4.1 - **Language:** English ### [256.4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.256.4.1) It is amusing to read the various theories put forth with regard to the site of Bilasa-ghun, and the derivation of its name. In the Geographical Magazine for June, 1874, we are told, in a paper by Mr. Robert Michell, who quotes M. Paderin, that “Bela-sagun,” as he styles it, is indifferently called Kara-Korum, Kara-Kherem, Kara-Koram, and Kara-Khelin, and that, “by Muhammadan writers, it is called Urdu Balik (D’Ohsson, Hist. des Mongols, t. i, p. 76) or Belasagun, now written \[by whom?\] Balgasun, which M. Semenof explains is only a title.” This may be dismissed as simple nonsense. Bilasa-ghun and Kara-Kuram are totally distinct places. In the same for July, 1874, p. 167, Colonel Yule, C.B., referring to the above, says “That Belasaghun was a corruption of the Mongol Balghassun, or ‘city or royal residence,’ as is intimated in the same passage, seems highly probable,” but he thinks that it is “greatly to be questioned whether Belasaghun was the same as Karakoram.” Who is the authority that “Belasaghun was a corruption of the Mongol Balghasun” is not mentioned, nor do I think any Eastern author will be found to contain such a statement for reasons I shall mention farther on. Tirmid, Amud, Tal-kan, Guzarwan \[also Juzarwan\] and Gharjistan, as far as the frontier of Ghur. All Mawara-un- - [Previous: 256.3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.256.3.9) - [Next: 256.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.256.4.2) - [Up: 256.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.256.4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.256.4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.256.4.1) · Pramāṇa