The Nāṣirī Generations 287.1.6

287.1.6

As soon as the expedition had been determined on, agents were despatched in order that wheresoever the passage of the great host should be, from Karaguram to the Amuiah, all the available pasture-lands and grazing tracts should be laid under embargo [the word used is kuruk, the same that is used with reference to the site of the subterranean chamber in which the Chingiz Khan was buried, but signifies enclosed as well as prohibited. The word is quite common in our district Law Courts in India] for the use of the forces. Strong bridges were also constructed over the different rivers by the way to enable the great host to cross with ease and facility. Throughout the whole empire [east of the Sihun probably] orders were sent so that, for the use of the army, at the ratio of a taghār [an earthen vessel of capacity; also a saddle-bag for holding corn or meal, which is probably meant here, and, of course, filled. Some authors state that a taghār is equivalent to 100 manns of Tabriz, others to 10 manns of Tabriz, equal to one kharwār] of meal, and a khīg [a skin or leather bottle of liquor] for each man, should be collected. The Nu-yīn, Tanju, and his army, together with the troops which had previously been sent into I-rān-Zamīn under Jurmāghūn, now received orders to move towards the frontiers of Rūm.