The Nāṣirī Generations 273.4

273.4

Ka’an, I would observe, cannot be “a contraction” for Khakan—because the metre of both words is precisely the same, and there is no kh in the former; further, that it was not “borne by all Ogotai’s successors,” for Kuyuk did not bear it, neither was it “new,” for Bu-zanjar, the ninth ancestor of the Chingiz Khan, bore that title. One writer indeed says that, “as the towards Ghur and Ghaznin, and began to administer the affairs of the country according to justice and equity, to keep his forces under subordination, and to cherish his subjects.