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presently ousted by Dava = camel, the son of Búráe, who held Khutan (where he was V.B.
buried) as an ally of Kaidú, by whom he was now, in 671 H.=1272 A.D., set on the
throne of Chaghtáy (Y.C.).
Dava Khan after this put an end to all other Aoktáy rivals, and added Turkistán
north of the Jaxartes to the Chaghtáy dominions. On the return of Tymúr Cáán,
the son and successor of Cubláy (under whose glorious reign the indolence and
barbarity of the Moghol character was greatly improved and softened by their
contact with the industry and polish of the Chinese), from his raid down to Lahore
Dava joined Kaidú against him. The hostile armies met and fought 701 H. = 1301
A.D. in the country between Karákoram and the Tárim river of Lob (in the vicinity
probably of Karáshahr the modern site of the ancient Jálish). Kaidú was defeated,
and, dying on his way home, was succeeded by his son Chaba or Shabar. He and
Dava now united in submission to Tymúr Cáán, but they soon after quarrelled.
Tymúr Cáán attacked Chaba, 703 H.=1303 A.D., between Samarcand and Khujand,
whilst Dava seized all the Chaba territory and reunited the Chaghtáy empire as
before its division by Kaidú (Y.C.).
This did not last long, however, for Dava died in 706 H. = 1306 A.D., and the Y.C.
people of Eastern Turkistán, who had been under Kaidú rule, such as the Uighúr
of Káshghar, Yarkand, and Allahtágh (Alatagh), preferred a separate rule to that of
the Musulmáns of Mawaránahar, and, finding no Chaghtáy descendant amongst them,
invited Aymil Khoja, the son of Dava Khán, to be their ruler. He was succeeded
in 1347 A.D. by Toghlúc Tymúr, who thus once more re-established the eastern
branch of the Chaghtáy Khani, known as the kingdom of Mogholistán or the Jattah
ulús, whose capital was at Káshghar first, then at Yárkand, and later at Aksú, with
the summer quarters at Atbashi on the Upper Nárin to the north of the Allahtágh.
Meanwhile in Máwaránahar another son of Dava, named Konjuk, had ascended V.B.
the throne. He died very shortly, and then Talikada, a descendant of Moaltakin, a
Chaghtáy, who was killed at Bámyán, succeeded. He accepted Islám, and was the
second convert amongst Moghol rulers. He was soon killed by his nobles, who then
set Kabak, another son of Dava, on the throne. Chaba warred with him, and was
defeated. Kabak now resigned the Government to an elder brother, Eshan Boghá,
who was chief of the Chaghtáy ulús from 709H.=1309 A.D. to 716H.=1316 A.D.
He conquered Khurásán up to the Murghab river in 1315 A.D. In retaliation for
this Oljátú, the Moghol King of Persia, under the name of Khudá Banda, sent an
army with a convert brother of Eshán Boghá, named Yasavar (and a refugee with him)
to ravage Máwaránahar. They massacred, pillaged, and captivated the population
up to Samarcand in the depth of winter. Eshán Boghá now disappeared, and Kabak,
resuming the Government, punished his rebel brother, and died 721H.=1321 A.D.
After this followed many years of rivalry and anarchy under successive Chiefs,
till the time of Kábil Sháh in 1363 A.D. During this period, since the invasion of
Changíz, the Moghol character succumbed to the superior physique and innervation
of their subjects of the Caucasian stock, and their manners and religion declined
before the advancing force of a revived Islám.
After the death of Kabak, the Kháni of the Chaghtáy empire in 1321 A.D. Y.C.
fell to the hands of Elchí Gadáy, who was succeeded by Tarmashírín Khán. He
became a convert to Islám, and, adopting the name 'Aláuddín, abandoned Almálígh,
the later capital of the Moghols—the first and original capital was Beshbálígh—and
removed his Court to Máwaránahar. He was dethroned 1334-35 A.D. by his
brother Búzún Khán. He persecuted the Musulmans, who at this time everywhere
displayed a remarkable activity and zeal in propagating their polity and creed; but
was very soon deposed by Chansi, or Jinkshí Khan, also of the Chaghtay line, to
whom Pope Benedict XII. in 1338 A.D. addressed a letter of thanks for the protection
he afforded to Christians.
He in turn was shortly ousted from the Government by Yesuntimeur, and he
again, in 1338-39 A.D., by 'Alí Sultán, that "certain villain of a falconer, a Saracen

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