When Kazan Sultan, the son of Yussoor Oghlan, ascended the throne he displayed great pride and cruelty, and put a number of his ameers and Noyauns to death, and, for that reason, the remaining chiefs of the aloos of Chughtaie rebelled, and joined Ameer Kurghun against him. Ameer Kurghun assembled an army at the town of Saliserai to oppose Kazan Sultan, who, when he heard of it, marched towards him to attack him. Ameer Kurghun also advanced to meet him; and, in the year 746, the two armies met on the plain of Derehi Zungi, and in the battle which was fought there Meer Kurghun was wounded in the eye by an arrow, and defeated. Kazan Sultan returned after this victory to Koorshi, but in that winter, from the exceeding coldness of the season, most of the* men and cattle of the adherents of Kazan Sultan perished in the snow; and Ameer Kurghun, hearing of his losses, again raised the standard of rebellion, and attacked Kazan Sultan Khan, and in a battle fought between them Sultan Kazan was slain on the field of battle. Ameer Kurghun, however, forbade his sepahees, or soldiers, all plunder and devastation, and treated the family of the slain monarch with great kindness and respect.
The twenty-fifth khan, Danishmundche Khan, descended from Ooktaie Khan, the son of Chungeez Khan.
Danishmundche Khan was raised to the throne by Ameer Kurghun after the death of Kazan Sultan, but as his pedigree was derived from Ooktaie Khan, not from Chughtaie Khan, for that reason, or some other, after reigning two years, he put him to death.
The twenty-sixth khan, Biankuli, the son of Surghud Ooghul, the son of Chichun Khan, the son of Borak Khan, the son of Sookur, the son of Kamgar, the son of Chughtaie Khan.
Ameer Kurghun after he had murdered Danishmundche Khan, raised Biankuli to the throne of the Khans; he then occupied himself in the regulation of the cities and people of his kingdom, and by a specious display of justice and liberality, attracted the affections of all classes of the people. In the year 760 Hejri a certain Kutluk Timoor, the brother-in-law of Ameer Kurghun, from some malice that he bore him, assassinated the worthy ameer while he was out hunting, and then fled to Kundooz: the relations and friends of the ameer, however, pursued him, and having found him at Kundooz they cut him to pieces. After the death of Ameer Kurghun, his son Abdullah took his father’s place, and made Samarkund his capital. He there fell in love with the wife of Biankuli Khan, the son of Surghad Ooghul, and put the unhappy Moghool prince to death and seized his wife.
The twenty-seventh khan, Timoor Shah, the son of Yussoo Timoor Khan, the son of Iyukur, the son of Dowa Chichun, the son of Borak Khan, &c. &c.
After the murder of Biankuli Khan, Ameer Abdullah, the son of Ameer Kurghun, raised to the throne Timoor Shah, the son of Yussoo Timoor Khan. Ameer Bian Suldooz, however, rebelled, and, in concert with Ameer Haji Birlas, who was descended from Yussoo Munga, the son of Kurachar Noyaun, marched to attack him. The contending armies soon met, and a battle was fought, in which Ameer Bian Suldooz gained the victory, and Ameer Abdullah and Timoor Shah Khan were both slain. Ameer Bian Suldooz then raised the standard of sovereignty in Mawurunneher. He was a mild and good man, but much given to drinking, and, from that cause, great confusion and disorder prevailed in the affairs of the country of Tooraun, and in every city an independent chief of the tribe or aloos arose. Among the principal of these was Ameer Haji Birlas, descended from Yussoo Munga, the son of Kurachar Noyaun. He occupied Kish; Ameer Bayuzeed Jullair seized Khojund; Ameer Ooljaitoo Agha Suldooz, Balkh; and Ameer Khwajeh Burdi, Sharghan; these all strove to be masters. Ameer Hussun, the son of Milan, the son of Kurghun, assembled forces and attacked all parties, and Ameer Khidr Yussoori with his dependents admitted no superior.
The twenty-eighth khan, Toghluk Timoor, the son of Eel Khwajeh, the son of Dowa Chichun, the son of Sultan Ghiaus-ud-deen Borak Khan, &c.— Toghluk Timoor Khan, after the death of Ameer Kurghun, was made chief of the aloos of Hubbeh,* and in the year 761 Hejri, when he heard of the disturbed state of Mawurunneher, he marched thither and reduced most of the ameers before-mentioned to obedience; he then returned to Jineh or Hubbeh. After his return the ameers of Mawurunneher again disagreed, and rebellion again showed itself every where. Toghluk Timoor Khan, therefore, in the year 763, returned to that country and put to death Ameer Bayuzeed Jullair and Bian Suldooz; he after this left his son Ilias Khwajeh in Mawurunneher, and returned to his capital, and was there converted to Islamism, and a great number of his subjects followed his example, as is related in the book called the Mufsulah. He was buried at Almaligh in a mausoleum built by his orders, and known by the name of Altoon.
The twenty-ninth khan, Ilias Khwajeh, the son of Toghluk Timoor Khan, the son of Eel Khwajeh, the son of Dowa Chichun, &c.
Ilias Khwajeh Khan, after the return of his father from Mawurunneher, reigned there two years. In the year 765 a battle was fought between him and Ameer Hussein (the son of Ameer Milan, the son of Kurghun), in conjunction with Ameer Timoor Goorkan (the son of Ameer Toraghi Noyaun, the son of Purkuli, the son of Alungeez Noyaun, the son of Eechul Noyaun, the son of Kurachar Noyaun, &c.), at the town of Kyakeen, in which he was defeated, and fleeing to Hubbeh was there assassinated by Kumr-ud-deen Doghalut, and was buried at Almaligh, by the side of his father, Toghluk Timoor Khan.
The thirtieth khan, is Adil Sultan, the son of Mahummud Khan, the son of Polad, the son of Kurjook, the son of Dowa Chichun, &c., &c.— Adil Sultan Khan was raised to the throne by Ameer Hussein, the son of Milan; he held possession of the countries of Balkh and Budakh-shan. After a short period, from some imputed crime or fault, he was thrown into the river of Chestigan and drowned.
The thirty-first khan, Kamil Shah, the son of Doorchi, the son of Eelchukdai Khan, the son of Dowa Chichun, &c.—When Ameer Hussein, the son of Milan, the son of Kurghun, under the pretence that Adil Sultan Khan entertained enmity towards him, drowned that unfortunate prince, he raised to the throne in the city of Balkh* Kamil Shah Khan, the son of Doorchi. At that time Ameer Timoor Goorkan, (the son of Toraghi, the son of Alungeez Noyaun, the son of Eechul, the son of Kurachar Noyaun) had assembled an army and was encamped at Balkh.
The thirty-second khan, Syoorghunumush, the son of Danishmundchi Khan.—This prince was of the race of Chughtaie Khan, the son of Chungeez Khan. The great Timoor, at whose birth the four trines of the great stars returned twelve times to each trine in conjunction,* and who for that reason was denominated by the learned, the great Timoor Goorkan, at that time resided at Balkh, and governed agreeably to the customs of his forefathers, that is to say, in conformity to the words of the Koran, “Observe my covenant;”* also to the covenant which was first made by Kacholi Bahadoor and Kubul Khan, called the Al-tumghaie of Toomneh Khan; and next renewed between Chungeez Khan and Kurachar Noyaun, and the third time renewed and confirmed by Dowa Chichun and Alungeez Noyaun.
According to these three treaties, at the time a war broke out between the great Timoor Goorkan and Ameer Hussein, the son of Milan, Ameer Hussein raised Kamil Shah to the throne in the city of Balkh; Ameer Timoor Goorkan also raised Syoorghunumush Khan, the son of Danishmundchi Khan, of the race of Ooktaie Khan, to the throne, and encamped with a large force at Balkh, Ameer Hussein being within the walls of that city, and the standard of slaughter was raised between them.
In one of the battles fought there, Omr Shaikh Bahadoor, the son of Timoor Goorkan the Great, was wounded in the foot by an arrow, and three days after this occurrence Ameer Hussein, the son of Ameer Milan, the son of Kurghun, was taken prisoner by the troops of the great Timoor and put to death (some mistake, or word left out here) with Kaikhosrou and Kutlakh; when the period of the life of Syoorghunumush Khan had arrived the great Timoor was still living.
The thirty-third khan, Sultan Mahmood, the son of Syoorghunumush, the son of Danishmundchi Khan, of the race of Ooktaie Khan.
On the death of Syoorghunumush Khan the great Ameer Timoor raised to the throne his son Sultan Mahmood, and his name was written at the head of state-papers as long as the great Timoor lived, and to the period when Timoor departed this life at the town of Otrar, on his journey to Khutai, the khani or sovereignty of Sultan Mahmood Khan was undisputed and independent. The great actions performed by Ameer Timoor Goorkan and his conquests are detailed separately in other histories.
This history treats of the four Uluses or tribes of Chungeez Khan, and enumerates the kings, who were the children, or descendants of Turk Khan, the son of Japhet, the son of Noah, on all of whom be peace.
The names of the kings (Khwakeen) of Turkistan, contained in this work, are taken from the compilation made by Sultan Issaed Alugh Beg Mirza the martyr (may God enlighten his tomb), illustrative of the history of the Khans of the four Uluses.