The Nāṣirī Generations 258.4.4

258.4.4

After the seizure of the last Kara-Khita-i ruler, his dominions east of the Sihun devolved upon Koshluk, but he did not thereby become himself "Gur Khan," as we are informed in the "Mongols Proper." Had Koshluk known how to have managed the Gur Khan, after he became his son-in-law, he might have got up a formidable, and, perhaps, successful, combination against the Mughal ruler, to whom also he was related on the mother's side. Koshluk was an idol-worshipper — but-parast — a Buddhist, and his wife [or one of his wives?] was a follower of 'I-sa — Jesus Christ; hence they were both intolerant to the Musalmans, continually exhorting them to turn idolaters — the Rauzat-us-Safa says, to embrace Christianity — and those who would not were massacred. The Tarikh-i-Alfi, however, says that Koshluk, "for the sake of an idol-worshipping damsel, became himself an idol-worshipper too," but without mentioning what faith he previously followed, which we must presume was the Christian. Koshluk, for a period of four years, from 610 to 614 H. [May, 1213, to April, 1217, A.D.], continued to send forces against Kashghar, and they used to commit great ravages, and burn the crops, in such wise, that famine began to show itself in that tract of country. The inhabitants could do no other than give up the city of Kashghar and its defences to him, and the fort surrendered. Koshluk's troops took up their quarters in the peoples' houses.