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In proof of his gratitude, Wais gave his sister, Makhtûm Khanim, in marriage T.R. to his chivalrous adversary on condition of bis accepting Islam, and henceforward recognized him as an ally. This Eshan Tayshi had his seat in the vicinity of Turfan, where he excavated several kd ez or subterranean aqueducts for the irrigation of his fields. He was very fond of hunting the wild camel, and annually made an. excursion to Lob and Katak in pursuit of the game for the sake of their wool, which his mother used to weave into cloth for his vestments. And he wore none other but these.
His wife, Makhtûm Khanim, bore him two sons, namely, Ibrahim Aong, and Ilyâs Aong, and a daughter, Kidir Birdi, who married Mir Karim Birdi. Owing to their new creed these brothers warred with the Kalmak, whose Chief, Arai Sanji Tayshi, and his three hundred thousand people, drove them and their hundred and seventy thousand people to Mogholistan, whence again, in the time of Dost Muhammad, they pressed them on to the Khita border. Ibrahim left a son, Bibolay, the Chief of the tribe of that name there, and they subsequently warred with Mansûr on the Khita border.
In April-May 1420 A.D. Amir Khudidid received and entertained the embassy Y.C. under Shâdi Khoja, with Ghyithuddin and five hundred followers, from Shahrûkh to the Emperor of China. Their route from Herat was by Balkh and Samarcand to Tashkand and Syra.m ; and thence to Asferah, where the Amir met them and forwarded their progress by Yuldûz to Turfin, whence they went on by Kara Khoja to Atsafi, and Kamil on the Chinese frontier. They returned two years later by the desert route to Khutan, and thence to Kishghar; and on by Andijan to Samarcand and Herat, owing to the Moghol route on the north of the Alitigh being closed by disturbance amongst the tribes. Amir Khudidid was a pious, beneficent, and popular governor, and administered the government of Mugholistan during the reigns of four Chaghtay Khans.
The cities of Kishghar, Yarkand, Khutan, Aksû, Bay, and Kusan or Kûcha T.R. were held by his sons, grandsons, and nephews, and his dependents numbered twenty-four thousand families. Yet he had neither flocks nor herds, but lived frugally and simply in a single Khargah, and for a journey depended on the loan of his neighbour's horses. He spent his wealth in ransoming and liberating the Musalmins 'enslaved by the Moghols, who habitually raided Turkistan, Tashkand, and Andijan in this pursuit. In his old age seeing no prospect of restoring order in the country under the rule of Wais, he favored the schemes of Ulugh Beg, and inviting him to Chui, there made the Moghol over to him.
The tribes, however, disapproving the transfer of their liberties, dispersed to their steppes, and Khudidid, no longer able to stay amongst them, decided on making the pilgrimage to Mecca, which even in his time seems to have been, as now, the last resort of unsuccessful statesmen and rulers. For this purpose he returned with Ulugh Beg to Samarcand, and was thence forwarded by him with every mark of attention and hospitality to Herat. From this, after a short stay, he went on to Mecca, and died at Medina, where he was buried, aged ninety-seven years.
Meanwhile Ulugh sent a force under Situk Khan to reduce Mogholistan. He met and engaged the Moghol under their Chief near Isigh Ka; and, the nomads being put to flight, Wais endeavoured to rally them by heading a charge against the Samarcand troops, but, his horse stumbling at a ditch, he was thrown, and instantly beheaded by one of Satuk's attendants. On this his army dispersed to their camps, and Situk then led his troops against Kishghar, where he was killed by Karikûl Ahmad, a grandson of Khudidid.
Ulugh then despatched an army against Kishghar to avenge his death. Caraktil was seized, and sent prisoner to the capital, where he was executed; whilst the district, as Andijan had been before, was annexed to Samarcand, and governed by officers of the Doghlat family appointed by Ulugh. But Aksû, By Ktisan, Turfin, Yarkand, Khutan, &c., continued in the hands of Khudidad's family.
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