The Nāṣirī Generations 279.7

279.7

The author of the Moztgols Frojfer” p. 725, quoting some foreign translation of Persian writers, evidently derived from a source similar to that whence I draw information, but probably misunderstood in the original, says “Abika had been married to a dyer on the borders of China,” after the Chingiz Man’s deaik--2iXi exceeding high position truly for Uktae’s chief Matun to “envy” because the other “had married so well—and went every year with her son, who was dressed as a cupbearer to pay her respects at the court,” etc. The errors here are plainly disclosed from the above account. The same writer, quoting some other foreign translation of Persian histories, says, “Ogotai Khan was buried in the valley of Kinien, i. e. another name for the Imperial cemetery, whose site we have already described sub voce, Jmgis Khan but it so happens that they were totally different places. ■Qktae promulgated a code of his own, which, under the name of tzlrah—o. Turkish word signifying, institute, system, code, etc.—was, like the ydsd of his father, observed among the Mughal people. In 633 H. new regulations were promulgated respecting taxes on cattle, and on grain for the poor, and other matters for which I have no space here. U-Tigin, went to the presence of the Altun Khan of Chin and Chaghatae, and his sons, commenced acting in a refractory manner; and a great number were killed by the hands of each other — God's curse upon them!