The Nāṣirī Generations 286.1.3

286.1.3

Having reached the Dasht-i-Kifchak and the presence of Batu Khan, he received them with great favour, and paid Mangu great attention. Batu stated to the other Shah-zadahs present at the kuriltae then assembled, that he had already remarked Mangu's fitness for the Khan-ship, and, besides, reminded them that he had already experienced the good and evil, the sweet and bitter, of life, and the affairs of the world, had several times commanded armies, and had been held in estimation by Oktae Ka'an, the Shah-zadahs and Amirs, and the soldiery. Batu added : "The Ka'an sent him along with me, and my brothers, Urdah, Shaiban, and Tangkut, and others of the family of Juji, accompanied by his brother Korkan, and Kyuk, into the territory of Kifchak, and other countries, where he greatly distinguished himself. After that, when the Ka'an commanded that the Shah-zadahs should return, before they reached the Ka'an's presence he was dead. The Ka'an's will was, that Shiramun, his grandson, should succeed him, but Tura-Kinah Khatun set aside his commands, and set up her own son, Kyuk, in the place of his father, Uktae. Now it is proper that Mangu Khan should succeed, and he is worthy of succeeding ; and there is none other so fitting and capable of meeting the affairs of the empire and of the army. More than this, Mangu is the son of my uncle, Tuli Khan, the youngest son of the Chingiz Khan, and to whom appertained the charge of the great yurat;