The Nāṣirī Generations 256.4.6

256.4.6

So the upshot of all this is that the Afrasiyabi dynasty is "a mistake," and yet they are said to have reigned at three different capitals—Bilasa-ghun, Almaligh, and Samrkand, and also to have "held sway at Kashgar," to be "descendants of Afrasiab," also "Lion Uighurs" [I-ghurs], and of "the old royal race of Turkish Sultans," and yet also "Karluks." What a tissue of mistakes and inconsistencies have we here! See also the note on Koshluk farther on. I have already alluded to some of these statements in my account of the Afrasiyabi dynasty. Mr. Howorth's latest theory [Geog. Mag. July, 1878] is that "Kenchak," which Mr. Schuyler has "identified" with Merke, "seems to mark the site of the famous capital of the Kara Khitai, Balasaghun, which has been the subject of much controversy!"