The Nāṣirī Generations 294.11

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account them one the less." Kuduz answered him [here again was the hereditary enmity between Turks and Mughals : Kuduz was a Turk-man, and Bandkadar, his Wazir, a Kifchak Turk] : "Boast not so much, perfidious man, of the powers of the horsemen of Turan. They effect their purposes by treachery, perfidy, and fraud : not manfully and openly like the hero, Rustam." After a few more taunts on either side, Kuduz had the head of the Nu-yin Kaibuka struck off and sent to Misr. He then pushed on with his forces, as far as the Furat plundered the Mughal made captives of their women and children, and "carried them away into the house of bondage;" slew the whole of the Mughal Shahnahs and officials located in Sham [Syria] by Hulaku, with the exception of the Shahnah of Damashk, who fled the very night the news of the defeat of Kaibuka reached him. The "horsemen of Turan" did not "carry away the sands of Misr in their nose-bags," as Kaibuka vainly boasted, but they carried off defeat again and again. The overthrow of Kaibuka, the Naeman, is not to be found in the Fanakati : these defeats are ignored, and victories only chronicled. Bandkadar above referred to, who was a Turk of Kifchak, under the style and has been set up at the city of Rai in his father’s place but God knows the truth.