[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate) › [Ṭabaqāt-i Nāṣirī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri) › [Tabakat-i-Nasiri](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty) › 271.3.5 # The Nāṣirī Generations 271.3.5 Tabakat-i-Nasiri 271.3.5 - **Language:** English ### [271.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.271.3.5) Bentinck censures Marco Polo for relating, that, “in his time, the Tartars were accustomed, at the funerals of their Kháns, to slay all those they met in the way, and that they slew all whom they met on the way to the place appointed for the sepulchre of Jenghtz Khán; and that, a little before \[true: a little before\] his arrival in Grand Tartary, there had been 20,000 persons massacred in that manner, at the interment of Mangu Khán, grandson of the conqueror.” Bentinck further remarks, and quite correctly too, that none of the Eastern authors, who have written on the Tartars \[Mughals?\], charge them with “such an abominable custom.” He adds, that “in Grand Tartary”—he means Mughalistan and the Mughals—the inhabitants live so dispersed in their kharg-ahs or huts, that one might travel several hundred leagues without meeting a thousand. Polo too kills the Chingiz Khán six years only after his defeat of the “Um” Khan, as he styles the Awang Khan, and asserts that he was shot in the knee by an arrow before the castle of Thaigin! - [Previous: 271.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.271.3.4) - [Next: 271.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.271.3.6) - [Up: 271.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.271.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.271.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.271.3.5) · Pramāṇa