The Nāṣirī Generations 257.3.7

257.3.7

The Awang Khan had fled towards the territory of the Naeman tribe to seek shelter with their ruler, Tuluku or Taibuku, the Tayanak Khan, but, when he reached the Tayanak Khan’s country, some of the latter’s chiefs, without communicating with their sovereign, and on account of an old feud, put the Awang Khan to death. Sangun however managed to escape out of their clutches, and succeeded in reaching the territory of Kirkiz and Tibbat, and from thence got to Kashghar—another writer states that he proceeded towards Khutan and Kashghar, thus indicating the whereabouts of Kirkiz—but he was subsequently put to a cruel death, in the Kashghar territory, by the chief of a branch of the Khilj tribe, of Kulij Kara, called Kara Ma, who sent his family captives to Tamur-chi. The brother of the Awang Khan, whose three daughters were wives to Tamur-chi and his sons Jiiji and Tuli, escaped into Tingkut. Of this person more anon. As the whole of the Karayat tribe, and the forces of the Awang Khan, had submitted to him, the mind of Tamur-chi being now at rest from anxiety, he resolved on taking some recreation after his fatigues. He accordingly passed some time pleasantly in the part, near which the battle took place, in pleasure, and in enjoying the diversion of the chase, after which he set out for his native yurat, or encampment. These events happened in the year 599 H. [A.D. 1202-3], when Tamur-chi was 49 years old, but some say he was 50.