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T.R. closed against him, he consented to retire on the surrender of the family of Sáníz,
whose widow, Jamák Aghá, he forthwith married, and whose sons, Abábakar and
'Umar, and a daughter, Khan Sultán Kháním, he sent off to Aksú; whilst he himself
turned off to plunder Káshghar during the temporary absence of Hydar at Yángí Hissar.
Dost Muhammad was seventeen years old when he succeeded his father at Aksú,
and was supposed to be mad from his eccentricities, the most noted of which was his
assumption of the character of a darvesh with the name Shams Abdál. He added
the title Abdal to the names of all his courtiers and public officers, and insisted on
their being so addressed in all official correspondence or business.
His treacherous conduct now at Káshghar estranged Hydar from his interests,
and sent him over to the side of Yúnus; whilst Abábakar, to whom he had given his
sister, Husn Nigár Kháním, in marriage, terrified by his violent bursts of temper,
fled to his uncle at Káshghar; and Dost, to be rid of him entirely, sent his bride
after him. Following this the mad youth insisted on marrying one of his late
father's widows. His desire was prohibited by the clergy as unlawful, but he executed
seven of them in turn, and then an eighth was found willing to perform the ceremony
on the grounds that such a connexion was lawful only to such an infidel. Dost
Muhammad was seized with a violent colic on the nuptial night with his step-mother,
and died six days later, aged twenty-four years, in 873 H.=1468 A. D., having
reigned seven years. The date of his death is told in the chronogram ao khúk murd=
"that pig died."
In the disorder following, his son, Kabak Sultan Oghlán, fled to Jálish and
Turfán; and Yúnus, waiting his opportunity on the frontier, came down and seized
Aksú. But his nomads again deserted him to join Kabak, and he was forced to
return to Mogholistán. Here, on the Ayla river, he was attacked by Amá Sénji
Táyshí, the Kalmák Chief, and, being defeated with great slaughter of his Moghol,
was compelled to retreat to Karátoçí on the River Syhon. His camp here, whilst
Yúnus had crossed the frozen river on a hunting excursion, was surprised by Búráj
Oghlán, son of Jáni Beg, son of Abúlkhyr, who with his marauding Uzbak took
shelter from the inclemency of the weather in the Khargah tents with the Moghol
women and old men. Yúnus on receiving intelligence of this hurried back, and,
surrounding the enemy, attacked and slew most of them with their leader, only a
few escaping back to the steppe.
Shortly after this, in the spring, Yúnus moved to Táshkand, where Shekh Jamál
Khar was Governor on the part of Samarcand, which, with Hissár, Kundúz and
Badakhshán, on the death of Abú Sáid in Irac, had fallen to his son, Sultán Ahmad;
whilst Harí and Khurásán had passed to Husen Mirzá; and Farghána with Andiján
to 'Umar Shekh, the son of Abú Sáid; to each of whom Yúnus subsequently allied
himself by giving a daughter in marriage.
On his arrival now at Tashkand, in 875 H.=1470 A.D., Shekh Jamál seized
Yúnus, and, imprisoning him, gave his wife to Khoja Kalan; but she and her maids
set upon and killed him with bodkins and needles the first time he presumed to enter
her chamber. A year later Abdul Cudús, the nephew of Karím Birdi, Doghlát,
killed Shekh Jamál, liberated Yúnus, and presented him with his persecutor's head.
His Moghols now gathered round their King, and excused their perfidy in delivering
him up to Jamál as the result of his bringing them to city life, which to them was
worse than prison. Yúnus admitted his error, and returned with them to Mogholistán, where he ruled many years in peace; Hydar at Káshghar being his tributary.
On his return this time to Mogholistán, Kabak was killed at Turfán by his nobles,
and his head brought to Yúnus as a token of friendship; but he punished the bearers,
and reproved the nobles for slaying their Prince, even though a rebel. After he had
killed Búráj Oghlán at Karátoçí, Yúnus sent his eldest daughter, Mihr Nigár Kháním,
as wife to Sultán Ahmád, the son of Abú Sáid, to cement the friendship and main-
tain the alliance his father had initiated between the long estranged Moghol and
Chaghtéy. And now on his establishment in the government of Mogholistán,
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