The Nāṣirī Generations 257.2.1

257.2.1

Tamur-chi had fought with the Juri-ats, also styled Jajar-ats, a sept of the Nairuns, the tribe of Jamukah, the Sajan, or the double-tongued [Abu-l-Ghazi, Bahadur, styles him Jajan and Jachan, which, he says, signifies possessed of sagacity], and other Mughal tribes — the Tanjiuts, Kunghur-ats or Kungkur-ats, as it is also written, Jalairs, and Durmans [“Durbens” and “Durbans” are out of the question] ; and the Bigi, Suji, and the tribe of Barlas, of the progeny of Iridam-ghi, were in alliance with his enemies, but Karachar, head of the Barlas, remained faithful to him. In the year 589 H. [a.d. 1193], when in the fortieth year of his age, finding his enemies had entered into a confederacy to annihilate him, and that they were too numerous and too powerful to cope with, Tamur-chi determined on taking refuge with the Awang Khan, Tughrul-Tigin, and throwing himself on his protection, considering the friendship which had previously existed between his father, Yassuka, and that sovereign ; and Karachar accompanied him. This is contrary to the statement contained in a recent work on the Mongols Proper the authority for which appears to be Wolff or Erdmann, and, considering what follows, on undoubted authority, must be diametrically opposed to the fact. gressors, and the violence of the seditious, to retaliate on