The Nāṣirī Generations 256.5.7

256.5.7

The particulars I refer to, tending to throw light on the above, are, that, when Sultan Sanjar proceeded to Samrkand and dethroned Muhammad [No. XVIII. of the Afrasiyabis], a part of the Kara-Khita-is had a yūrat or camping ground in that part — on the frontier — the tracts assigned them by the Sultan in former years, for our author is, by no means, mistaken, as the author of ‘Mongols Proper’ imagines, in stating that Sanjar’s authority extended as far as the confines of Turkistan, for his being at Samrkand, on this occasion, proves it, and, moreover, as mentioned at page 133, the Maliks of Turkistan, and the Afrasiyabi Amirs submitted to the authority of Alb-Arsalan, Sanjar’s grandfather. Some of the Sultan’s Amirs persuaded him that this was a good opportunity for seizing their flocks and herds, and driving out altogether these Kara-Khita-is, whom they accused of contumacy. They implored the Sultan’s mercy, and offered, through those Amirs, to present 5000 horses, 5000 camels, and 50,000 sheep, as a propitiatory offering to him to allow them to remain where they were.