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Musalmáns with the whole of his force, and routed them with immense slaughter. T.B.K.
Ali Arslán was killed and beheaded, and the victors, pursuing the vanquished, chased
them into Káshghar, under the walls of which they paraded the head of their
victim, the renowned hero and favourite champion of the Musalmáns, and then cast
it to the dogs.

This hero martyr has, consequently, two shrines erected to his memory. One
at Ordám Pádsháh, called also Kúm Shahídán = "Martyrs' Sands," about fifty-six
miles east of Yángi Hissár, over his body where he was killed, and the other at
Daulat Bágh, close to Káshghar city, where his head is supposed to have been buried.

The Khutan and Máchín army invested Káshghar for several days and thoroughly
devastated the suburbs. In one of the skirmishes during this time Alá Núr Kháním
was killed. The account given in the book from which the preceding history is
taken runs much to this effect :—Alá Núr Kháním, called also Bibi Miryam from
the circumstances attending the birth of Alí Arslán, in the anguish of sorrow at the
death of her son resolved to avenge his loss, and, accompanied by a body of her maids,
rushed into the fray against the infidels. She slew twenty-five of them, and then,
being overpowered, took to flight. The ground miraculously opened in her course, and
disclosed some caverns, and she and her maids sought shelter in their recesses. Their
pursuers, however, presently discovered them in their retreat, and put them all to death.

The shrine of Bibi Miryam, it may be here noted, stands near a deep ravine
about ten miles north by east from the city of Káshghar. It has been recently
restored by the present ruler, Amír Muhammad Yákúb Khan, who has enclosed its
sacred precincts, and built a substantial mosque and commodious college on its
grounds, and appointed a suitable establishment of custodians, priests, and teachers
for their respective services.

After this disaster Hasan and his brothers, Husen and Yusuf Kádir, performed
the funeral ceremonies of the slain with solemnity and magnificence. Camels, horses,
oxen, and sheep were slaughtered without stint, and the whole of Káshghar, great and
small, rich and poor, were feasted. A fresh army of sixty thousand men was raised, and
Hasan again took the field, and, after a succession of victorious engagements, drove
the enemy into the hills at Kokyér. From this he returned by way of Yárkand.
The city submitted to him without resistance, and the people, coming out with
their arms suspended from their necks in token of subjection, presented a rich array of
gifts as peace-offering. Hasan halted here some time to settle the district and levy
a contribution for his army. He then appointed Abdussamad of Káshghar his
Governor over the city, and returned to his capital to enjoy a season of peace and
plenty, now ushered in by this successful campaign. The country during this period
of rest became so prosperous and productive that one chárak = twenty pounds weight
of corn, did not cost a single púl = a penny.

Hasan Bughra Khan had reigned twelve years when Khoja Abdulla from
Turkistán and Khoja Abábakar from Táshkand arrived over the Tirik Dawán,
as envoys, to seek the aid of Hasan in restoring order in their country. He forth-
with assembled his army, committed Káshghar to the charge of Husyún Fyzulla
Khoja and Abúl Kásim, Káshghari, as his Minister, and with his brothers, Hasan
and Yúsuf Kádir, and a great host set out for Turkistan. He spent the summer and
winter there in subjugating the country, and in the spring celebrated his nuptials
with Bíbí Chah Miryam, a noble lady and noted beauty of the place, the jayu=niece,
of Khoja Ahmad Yasaví, whose tomb there is the most sacred shrine in the country.
He then set out on a campaign over the whole country to the westward, and
penetrated to Madáyn in Persia. From this, after a prolonged stay, he returned by
the Culzum Daryá or Caspian Sea, and converting the infidels, re-established Islám,
city by city and tribe by tribe, up to Káshghar, where he arrived after an absence of
several years. Here he found his progress checked; for in his absence the city had
passed into the hands of the Khutan infidels, and the people had relapsed into their
old idolatry.