The Nāṣirī Generations 256.6.7

256.6.7

The wife, whose name is not given, dying some time after her succession, but without any date being mentioned, was succeeded by the Gur Khan’s daughter, Konik or Konayik Khatun, but whether the late sovereign was her mother has not transpired. The word is somewhat uncertain in some works, but I put the most trustworthy reading first upon all occasions, and that used by the majority of writers. It is written which, according to whether or be used, may be spelt in various ways, and which may be Koyunik, and Kolun — but another author, in two copies of his work, has Komanik or Gomanik or Komanig or Gomanig — according as to whether the Tazi or ’Ajami be meant. In the seventh year of I-yal-Arsalan, Khwarazm Shah’s reign [557 or 558 H.], because he was not punctual in the payment of his tribute, as stipulated by his father, his dominions were assailed by the Gur Khan’s forces. The Sultan sent forward, in advance, Gha-ir Beg, the Karlugh, a native of Mawara-un-Nahr, with an advance force, towards the Amuiah, but he was defeated and taken captive before I-yal-Arsalan could come to his support, and the latter fell sick and returned to Khwarazm where he died in the month of Rajab of the same year.