The Nāṣirī Generations 257.3.5

257.3.5

Tamur-chi now marched from the head of the Baljunah, and pitched his tents at a pleasant place on the bank of a river named the Ur or Aor Muran [Ur Muran ?], at the foot of a mountain range on the frontier of Kalangae Kada, or Kad, which is the boundary of Khitae on that side, and there he mustered his followers, and they amounted to 4600 men. Leaving that spot after a time, he moved onwards, and reached a place where was a piece of water—the river Kalar—[Kailar of our maps]. Abu-l-Ghazi, Bahadur, calls it the Kula Sue or River Kula—and, there being plenty of grass thereabout, he determined to make some stay. On the way thither, with his forces divided into two bodies, one with the women and followers, and moving on either bank, he fell in with an Amir, Turk-Ili, by name, who had a considerable following, and, on inquiry being made of him as to who he was, and his intentions and objects, he turned out to be a Angiras, a Kunghur-at Mughal, with a considerable body of that tribe, and he agreed to submit to Tamur-chi, and was treated with great distinction. Whilst encamped at this spot, Tamur-chi was joined by other smaller bodies of his other tribes, until, at length, his force grew formidable. Having marched from thence, Tamur-chi despatched from the banks of the river Kurkan [some say from the Kala Nawar.