The Nāṣirī Generations 256.5.5

256.5.5

In 534 H. [A.D. 1137, but the Jami’-ut-Tawarikh, contrary to several others, says in 536 H.], his troops defeated Sultan Sanjar on the frontiers of Samrkand, as already recorded at page 154; but, since that was written by me, I have elsewhere found some further particulars respecting that defeat which clear up so completely a most obscure passage in our author’s account there given, that I must relate them here. The identical passage in our author referred to is as follows. “After a great part of his [Sanjar’s] reign had elapsed, a body of people from Kara-Khitae, from Tamghaj [see Afrasiyabi Malik, No. XXI.], and the dependencies of Chin, entered the confines of Kara-kuram of Turkistan, and solicited Sultan Sanjar to assign them grazing lands; and, with the Sultan’s permission, they took up their quarters on those confines, in Bilasa-ghun, Kabalik [Kailak — is the correct name], and Almalik, and made those parts their grazing grounds.”