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Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873 : vol.1 |
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It is said to have covered several square miles of surface, and to have comprised R.S.
separate suits of apartments for his several brothers and their families, besides hunting
parks, flower gardens, fish ponds, &c., and all sorts of resorts for pleasure and amuse-
ment, with gorgeous pavilions and halls for music, dispersed over the grounds. In
all these the workmanship was of the most elaborate and costly kind, and the
handiwork of the most skilful artificers and masters from China and the countries
of the west. On the return of the victorious armies from the latter direction, he
held a Cúrultáy here, and in the midst of its magnificent ceremonies, and varied
displays, its pleasures and festivities, the Great Lord of all the Tártár nations, the
most puissant sovereign of the age, the Great Aoktáy Cáán, from Changíz,
died suddenly in 639 H.=1241 A.D. as King of Irán and Turán on the west,
and Mogholia and Khitá on the east.
Chaghtáy succeeded, and ruled the country from Irán to Karákoram. He was V.B.
a bigotted Budhist and a confirmed drunkard, nevertheless the country during his
rule flourished and prospered. He held his Court at Almáligh, between which and
Bukhárá he established a post of express couriers for speedy intelligence. He died
in the same year after Aoktáy, and left many sons, of whom Bisú, Borí, Bydar, and
Basan Bocá were present at the Curultáy, when Kúyúk, son of Aoktáy, succeeded to
the Kháni.
Chaghtáy had nominated his grandson Kará Hulákú, a minor, to succeed him,
and his mother, Abúskún, acted as regent, and put to death many State officers in the
way of her ambition. On this Kúyúk deposed her, and disposing of other rivals,
in 645 H. = 1247 A.D., appointed Bisú as successor to Chaghtáy.
This, however, led to anarchy at the capital, Almáligh, and disorder soon spread Y.C.
all over the country, and led ultimately to the dismemberment of the Chaghtáy
empire, on the ruins of which, after the lapse of a hundred years of anarchy, usur-
pations, depositions, and murders amongst the Moghol Princes contending for power,
was constructed the new kingdom of Mogholistán, or Jattah Ulús, by a Chaghtáy
descendant. This kingdom of Mogholistán comprised the countries of Zúnghár and
Káshghar on the north and south respectively of the Allah Tágh or Tianshán range
of mountains.
Kúyúk, after three years' reign, was succeeded by Mangú Khan, the eldest son V.B.
of Túlí. He reinstated Kará Hulakú and Abúskún, and, deposing Bisú for rebellion
against his authority, ordered Kará Hulákú to kill him; but both died before the
mandate could be carried out. On this Mangú appointed Organa, the widow of Kará
Hulákú, to the government of the Chaghtáy empire. She ruled in peace for ten
years at Almáligh, and there, in 1254 A.D. (Y.C.) received Hulákú Khan, the
second son of Túlí, and the Lord of the Western Tátár, when he was on his march
from Karákoram against the mulâhid or "assassins" in Persia, where, after the con-
quest of Baghdád, he died at Maragha in Azarbíján, not long after his brother,
Mangú, who died in 658 H. = 1259 A.D. at the siege of Tangtásh from the
effects of excessive drinking during his campaign against China. On his death war
broke out between his son and successor Cubláy Cáán, whose capital was at Khán-
báligh, and Arik Búghá in the west.
Organa was now deposed by Algú, who fixed his seat at Almáligh as the protegé
of Arik Búghá. But he soon revolted and joined Cubláy, who, whilst Arik Búghá
was engaged against him in the west, advanced and seized Karákoram. Arik Búghá
now took Almáligh and drove out Algú, who fled first to Káshghar, and then to
Khutan, and finally to Samarcand. Meanwhile Almáligh was devastated, famine
followed, and thousands perished. Arik Búghá was now deserted by his Chiefs, and
proposed peace provided he held the Chaghtáy country. Algú agreed to this, married
Organa, and appointing Masáúd Beg, the Chaghtáy Governor of Máwaránahar, to act
as Wazir, thus restored peace.
Algú now repelled the invasion of Turkistán by Kaidú, the grandson of Aoktay,
who, aided by Bátú, contested the succession to the paramount Kháni against Cubláy,
and died soon after his wife in 662 H. = 1263 A.D. Cubláy then appointed
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