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Y.C. of the blood royal," by whose orders the Christian Missionaries and the Bishop of the See were martyred at Almâligh (in 1339-40 A.D.), where presently he was ousted by the Amir Kazghan, or Kazan, who reigned till 1346 A.D., and was the last effective Khan of the main Chaghtay branch.
After his death in that year, the successive rulers of the Chaghtray û1ûs were mere puppets in the hands of the Amirs, or Provincial Military Governors, who set up and knocked down much at their pleasure, till the time of Tymûr. And even he at the height of his power maintained a titular successor to the Chaghtay throne. The last of these, Sultan Muhammad Khan, died on active service in Tymûr's Anatolia campaign in 1403 A.D.
T.R. The first of these rulers of the Chaghtây 414s, or Moghol Khans, as they are
called, was Toghlûc Tymûr, who was set on the throne in succession to the Amir Kazghan by the Amir Bolâjf of Aksû. His history, as given in the T&Ikki Faskidi, a history of the Moghol Khans, written by Mirza Hyder in Kashmir, 952H = 1544A.D., may be thus summarized.
Toghlûc Tymûr Khan was the son of Eshan Boghâ, the son of Dava, the son of Bûrac, the son of Kara Bisû, the son of Mangû, the son of Chaghtay, the son of Changiz. Eshan Bogha had many wives. Of these Satelmish Khaton was the chief, but she was barren. He went on an expedition into Mawarânahar, and left her in charge of his other wives. According to the ancient custom of the country the chief wife, in the absence of her husband, had supreme control of his other wives, and power to dispose of them as she pleased. Satelmish now found one of Eshan Bogha's wives, Minilik Khaton by name, was pregnant, and, becoming jealous, gave her away in marriage to a noble, named Sharâol Dukhtoy.
On his return home Eshan Bogha was grieved to learn this, and soon after died, leaving no successor to the Government. The Moghol tribes consequently soon became divided by anarchy and dissension till Amir Bolaji, Doghlâ.t, produced the rightful heir. He sent one Tâsh Tymûr=" Iron stone," with a flock of sheep for his sustenance, to wander amongst the Moghol tribes, discover the camp of Sharâol Dukhtoy, and find out if Minilik had borne a son. And if so, to steal and bring him away. Tash Tymûr, after long wandering, arrived at the camp of Sharaol, when only one blue goat of his flock of three hundred remained. He found that Minilik had two sons : the one by Eshan Bogha called Toghhic Tymûr; and the other by Sharâol, called Anjû Malik.
He stole away Toghliic, and joining a caravan, brought him by way of the Mûzart, or " Glacier Pass," to his master at Aksû. In crossing the glacier his youthful charge fell into a crevasse, and was extricated from his perilous position in the bottom of the chasm by means of a ladder of ropes, through the aid of the merchants of the caravan, headed by their leader Begjik. For his success in this enterprise, and the circumstance of the one remaining goat when he found Toghlûc, the adventurous Tâsh Tymûr got the soubriquet of Kok Ajku=Blue goat.
Amir Bolaji was originally of an Aksû family. When Chaghtay divided his kingdom into military commands, he gave the Mangalây Sûbah="the Front division" to Aortoba, the grandfather of Bolaji. Its boundaries on the east are Kohistan and Tabogor; on the west Sam and Jah Câsman, which is the end of the Fargbana country ; on the north Isighkol; and on the south Châchan and Sarigh Uighûr.
Amir Bolaji succeeded to this command, and its chief cities, in his time, were Khutan, Yarkand, Kâsan, Uzkand, Andijan, Atbâshi, Kosân, and Aksû. This last was the capital of Bolaji.
Toghlûc Tymûr was sixteen years old when he arrived at Aksû, and two years later, about 1332 A.D., Bolâjf set him up as Khan ; and he was so acknowledged by all Mogholistan and most of the Chaghtây country. He became a convert to Islam, and the author I am quoting gives the following account in connection with the event :-
When Changiz took Bukhara he slew most of the Musalmân clergy there, with their High Priest Khoja Hafizuddin ; but he spared Maulana Shujâûddin Mahmûd
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