The Nāṣirī Generations 258.4.1

258.4.1

It would seem, therefore, that Tuk-Tughan, hearing of the movements of the two Mughal armies, and finding Juji was coming upon him, moved from Kum-Kunjak, with the remains of the Makrit tribe, and endeavoured to reach Kara-Kum [which, in some imperfectly or carelessly copied MSS., has been turned into Kara-Kuram], which was the dasht or steppe inhabited by the Kanguli Turks, and which tribe had been assigned, by the Sultan of Khwarazm, to his mother, Turkan Khatun, as part of her appanage. At page 267, it is stated that, in 615 H., the Sultan had moved from Samrkand to Jand because a body of those remaining of the supporters of Kadr Khan [Kadir Khan of others], respecting whom more will be found in the account of Juji Khan farther on, had broken out into revolt on the confines of Jand, for the purpose of suppressing it, and, that, after he had annihilated that faction, he returned towards Samrkand again. Some other writers, however, say that this took place earlier, before the total downfall of the last Gur Khan, and that, after quelling this revolt, the Sultan heard that an army of the Gur Khan had appeared before Samrkand, of Islam which were there stationed, reached Sultan and was preparing to march to its relief, when the Kara-Khitae army was withdrawn to operate against Koshluk, but our author twice distinctly states that this revolt, or its suppression, happened in 615 H., and immediately after says that "the calamity of the infidels of Chin — i. e.