The Successors of Genghis Khan - Robert Bedrosian's Armenian ...

HISTORY OF JOCHI KHAN
This Hiilegii was born of a concubine of the Tangqut people called
Erniik Egechi. He had extremely long hair such that it reached the
ground. He had no children.44
With the aid of God Almighty the branch of Orda, the first son of
Jochi Khan, has been completed.
The Second Son of Jochi Khan—Batu
Batu was born of Oki4' Fujin Khatun, the daughter of Alchi Noyan,
of the Qpnqirat people. He was called Sayin-Khan46 and stood in
high honor and enjoyed great power, administering the ulus and army
in place of Jochi Khan and living a long life. When the four sons of
Chingiz-Khan died, he became the senior of all [of the Khan's]
grandsons and occupied a position of great honor and magnificence
amongst them. In the guriltai, no one dared to contravene his word,
nay, all the princes were obedient and submissive to him. It had been
previously ordained by a yarligh of Chingiz-Khan that Jochi should
proceed with an army and seize and take possession of all the northern
countries, such as Ibir-Sibir,47 Bular, the Qiipchaq Steppe, and the
lands of the Bashgh'ird, Rus,48 and Cherkes4' as far as Darband on the
Caspian, which the Mongols call Temur-Qahalqa.50 Jochi neglected
this command, and when Ogetei Khan acceded to the Khanate, he
charged Batu with that same undertaking, deputing his nephew
Mongke Qa'an, the latter's brother Bochek, and his own son Giiyiik
Khan, along with such great emirs as Siibetei Bahadur, the army
44 This paragraph is not in Verkhovsky. It apparently belongs together with the
paragraph referred to above, p. 106, note 39, and is therefore an interpolation from
some other source.
45 On the name, see Horded'Or, pp. 28-29.
46 Literally, "Good Khan," "good" not in the sense of "kind, benevolent" (Barthold),
or of "wise, sensible" (Pelliot), but of "late, deceased," the name being a
posthumous title bestowed on Batu to avoid the mention of his real name. See Boyle
1967.
47 That is, Siberia. See Bretschneider, II, p. 37, note 811.
48 Russians.
49 Circassians.
50 See above, Section i, p. 61, note 260.
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