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The Mulfuzāt Timūry = $b or, Autobiographical memoirs of the Moghul emperor Timūr
Timur
Asia, Central -- History; Asia, Central -- Kings and rulers -- Biography; Timur, 1336-1405 -- Early works to 1800
Till at length, after the establishment of the _Islām_ faith,
Tumenāh Khān was seated on the throne of dominion of the region
of Tūrkestān; he had two sons by one birth, one of which he
named Kajuly, the other Kubel Khān; when Kajuly had arrived at
the age of manhood, he dreamt one night, that he saw two stars
rise from the breast of Kubel Khān, and shortly after set; again
he thought he saw a star, equal in splendour to the sun, which
illuminated the whole world; when he awoke, he related his dream
to his father, who expounded it in this manner; ‘from the
posterity of your brother, a boy shall be born in the third
generation, who shall be the conqueror of the world:’ Tumenāh
Khān then gave orders for a grand feast, to which he invited all
the nobles and principal persons; during the feast the brothers,
having embraced each other, entered into an agreement, which was
drawn up in the Tūrkish language, and engraved on a plate of
steel, and which was deposited in the treasury; the subject of
the agreement was this, ‘that the posterity of the two brothers
should never quarrel with each other; that the dignity of _Khān_
should for ever remain in the descendants of Kubel Khān, and
that of (Sepah Salar) Commander in Chief, and prime minister in
the family of Kajuly.’[37]
In A. H. 549, Mungū Behadur, son of Kubel Khān, had a boy, born
with his two hands full of blood, to whom he gave the name of
_Timujy_; when this personage arrived at the age of forty-nine,
after much toil and danger, he was seated on the throne of
Tūrkestān.
On the day that he took the title of Khān, a dervish entered the
assembly, and proclaimed, “the Lord hath said to me, ‘I have
given the surface of the earth to Timujy,’ and I confer on you
the title of Jengyz Khān, that is to say, King of Kings.” But
Jengyz abandoned the duty of a conqueror, by slaughtering the
people, and by plundering the dominions of God, and put to death
many thousands of the Muselmāns.
On the morning of the day that he died, he bestowed the
sovereignty of Maveralnaher on his eldest son Jagtay Khān;[38]
he appointed Kerachār Nuyān, son of Ayzdumjyn Berlās, son of
Kajuly Behadur, who is my fourth and your fifth ancestor, to be
generalissimo and prime minister; and caused the agreement
entered into by Kajuly and Kubel Khān, to be brought from the
treasury, and given to them; Jagtay having perused it, delivered
it to Kerachār Nuyān, and conferred on him the title of Gurgān
or Kurkān (Great Prince).
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