The Nāṣirī Generations 286.3.3

286.3.3

No less than seventy-seven or seventy-eight members altogether of the family of the Khan, Nu-yins, and Amirs, perished on this occasion; and, in consequence of these executions, enmity arose among its members, which was never afterwards extinguished. Rubruquis, who reached Mangu’s urdu in January, 1254 A. D. — the last month of 651 H. — and was present during these executions, says that three hundred lords, besides ladies, perished. He describes Mangu Ka’an as being of middle stature, flat-nosed, and about forty-five years old. “He sat on a bed [couch], and was clad with a robe of spotted fur, which shined like seal-skin. His wife [one of his wives], who was a little pretty woman, sat by him; and, on another couch near, sat one of his daughters [by his chief Khatun], named Shirin, grown up, but exceedingly hard favoured, and several little children; for that being her [Shirin’s] mother’s urdu (a Christian lady whom the Khan was very fond of), she was mistress of it. On the 14th of January, the Khan’s chief wife Kotola Katen [the name of the Khan’s chief wife was Khankae Khatun] attended the Christian chapel with her children.”