The Nāṣirī Generations 296.1

296.1

Trustworthy persons related after this manner, that the nativity of Barka Khan, son of Tushi, son of the Chingiz Khan, [who] was [ruler over] the land of Saksin and Khifchak, and Turkistan, [took place] at the time that his father, Tushi, captured Khwarazm, and marched forces into the country of Saksin, Bulgar, and Saklab. When this Barka Khan was born of his mother, his father said: "This son of mine I have made a Musalman. Find a Musalman nurse for him, that his navel-string may be cut by a Musalman, and that he may imbibe Musalman milk, for this son of mine will become a Musalman." In accordance with this intimation, a nurse severed the navel-string [of the child] according to Musalman custom; and, at the breast of a Musalman nurse, he imbibed milk.