The Nāṣirī Generations 60.1

60.1

The author of the Tarikh-i-Nasiri, Imam Abu-l-Fazl-i-Baihaki, relates after this manner: that at this period when the Saljuks entered the skirt of the desert of Khurasan, and the son of Yag-mur retired discomfited before them, their Mihtars [chiefs] were three persons—Tughril and Da’ud, two brothers, the sons of Mikail, and their uncle Beghu; and all three in accord determined to tender their services to Sultan Mas’ud, and despatched a confidential agent to the Sultan’s presence—he, at that time, having come to Nishapur from Gurgan—and solicited that the districts of Nisa, Farawah, and certain places at the head of the desert might be assigned to them in fief. In the missive in question they had written their own names in the following manner: — “Tughril, and Beghu, and Da’ud, who proceeded to Nisa, where they had joined the Turkmans [see note «, page 119] there, and that they had been reinforced by other Saljuks and Khwarazmis ; and further, that he, Bu-Fazl, enclosed therewith a communication addressed to him by Beghu, Tughril, and Da’ud, in order that the Sultan might give such orders upon it as he might deem fit.