[380] The best account of this offshoot is to be found in an excellent paper entitled “The Chaghatai Mughals,” by W. E. E. Oliver, in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xx. New Series, p. 72, sec. 9. It will be found in a condensed form in Ney Elias and Ross’s Introduction to the _Tarikh-i-Rashidi_, or “History of the Mughals of Central Asia.” [381] _Vide ante_ on p. 155. [382] In the valley of the Upper Ili, near the site of the present Kulja. [383] During the reign of Chaghatāy Khān a curious rising occurred in the province of Bokhārā. A half-witted sieve-maker, from a village near Bokhārā, managed by various impostures to gather round him a number of disciples from among the common people, and so numerous and powerful did they become that in 630 (1232) they drove the Chaghatāy government out of the country, and, assuming the government of Bokhārā, proceeded to put to death many of its most distinguished citizens. They at first successfully repulsed the Mongol forces sent against them, but were finally vanquished, and order was again restored in Bokhārā. For this episode consult Vambéry, _op. cit._ p. 143 _et seq._; Major Price’s _Mohammedan History_, iii. 2. [384] _Tarikh-i-Rashidi_, Introduction, p. 32. [385] Chaghatāy is said to have died from grief at his brother’s death (_Habīb-us-Siyar_). [386] For historical data we have already referred the reader to Mr. Oliver’s paper and Vambéry’s _Bokhara_. S. Lane-Poole, in his _Mohammedan Dynasties_, gives a list of twenty-six Khāns of this house who ruled in Central Asia from A.H. 624 to 771 (A.D. 1227 to 1358), _i.e._ 140 years. The _Zafar-Nāmé_ of Nizām Shāmī (see note below, p. 168) gives a list of thirty-one Khāns of this line. [387] Cf. Müller’s _Geschichte des Islams_, ii. p. 217. [388] In A.H. 671 (1273) Bokhārā was sacked by the Mongols of Persia (Müller, _op. cit._ ii. p. 260). [389] _Bokhara_, pp. 159–60. [390] This Khānate embraced the present Zungaria and the greater part of Eastern and Western Turkestān; but the exact meaning of this geographical term is still undetermined. The subject has been fully discussed in the _Tarikh-i-Rashidi_ (_passim_). Cf. also Bretschneider, _op. cit._ ii. 225 _et seq._ [391] See _Tarikh-i-Rashidi_, Introduction, p. 37. [392] The Calcutta text of the _Zafar-Nāmé_ of Sheref ud-Dīn `Alī Yazdī, the famous biographer of Tīmūr, reads throughout _Karān_. S. Lane-Poole, _op. cit._, gives the date of his accession as 744 (A.D. 1343),--upon what authority it is not clear. Price (following the _Khulāsat ul-Akhbār_) is in agreement with the _Zafar-Nāmé_. We are, moreover, expressly told that he ruled fourteen years, and died in 747. [393] _Zafar-Nāmé_ (ed. Calcutta), i. p. 27. [394] This took place in the plains round the village of _Dara-Zangi_ (_Zafar-Nāmé_, ii. p. 28). [395] The third son of Chingiz, who had inherited the kingdom of Mongolia proper. [396] _Zafar-Nāmé_ (ed. Calcutta) reads Dānishmand Oghlān.