The Nāṣirī Generations 281.1

281.1

Trustworthy persons have related on this wise, that Uktae had two sons, one named Kutan, and the other Kyuk; but Kutan, who was the eldest, had become afflicted with palsy and did not possess eligibility for the sovereignty, to rule over the empire, and administer its affairs, and he [therefore] made over the throne to his brother Kyuk. When Kyuk assumed the sovereignty, all the refractory Mughals made their obeisance to him; and he nominated armies to [march into] the different countries of Chin, I-ran, Hindustan, Khurasan, and Irak. The Nu-in, Mangutah, who was at the head of the forces of [the Mughal troops occupying] Tukharistan, Khatlan, and Ghaznin, was, another time, made leader of an army. He was an aged man, very tall, with dog-like eyes, and one of the Chingiz Khan's favourites. On Mangutah's entering the land of I-ran, he made Tae-kan of Kunduz, and Walwalij, his head quarters; and, in the year 643 H., he determined upon entering the states of Sind, and, from that territory, brought an army towards Uchchah and Multan.