The Nāṣirī Generations 256.7.5

256.7.5

On his — Koman, or Kuman — becoming established in the sove- [one of] those battles, the Sipah-salar, Khar-jam, had reignty, he sent out Shahnahs [Intendants] into different parts, and appointed persons, with due discrimination, according to their different capacities, to various offices. Sultan Takish, Khwarazm Shah, had, on his deathbed, enjoined his son and successor, on no account to embroil himself with the Gur Khan if he desired to preserve the integrity and safety of his dominions, because, he said, he was a strong barrier between very powerful enemies, which should by no means be broken down. This refers to the Chingiz Khan, who, at this period, was becoming very powerful. When Sultan Muhammad, Khwarazm Shah, came to the throne, he continued for some time to transmit the tribute regularly as before, and friendship continued to subsist between him and the Gur Khan; and, when Sultan Mu’izz-ud-Din, Muhammad-i-Sam, Sultan of Ghur, became hostile to Sultan Muhammad, and invaded his dominions in 601 H., the Gur Khan despatched 10,000 men to the Sultan’s assistance under Baniko of Taraz [see pages 474 to 481 for our author’s account of it]; and before the gate of Andkhud [Andakhud] the Khita-is fought an engagement with the Ghuris, and overthrew them. On this occasion, Sultan ’Usman of Samrkand, the last of the Afrasiyabis, was present, as a vassal, with the Khita-i army: he had not, at that time, withdrawn his allegiance from the Gur Khan.