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

BEGINNING OF THE HISTORY OF TOLUI KHAN
middle, which they call got, up to the town of Bi-Jiu.15 Every town
and country which lay across their path they conquered and laid
waste. The plunder of the town of Jing-Din-Fu, which is one of the large
towns of Khitai and is called Chaghan-Balghasun16 by the Mongols,
went to Tolui Khan. And the plunder which Tolui Khan obtained
from that country and which has been inherited by his descendants in
Khitai, the Qipchaq Steppe and the other lands, is all exactly specified.
Such goods and treasures as are still in Khitai and belong to the share
of Hiilegu Khan and his descendants, the Qa'an has ordered to be
registered and kept until they have the means and opportunity to
send them.
After they returned from the countries of Khitai, Chingiz-Khan
set out for the Tazik country. When he came to Otrar, he left Jochi,
Chaghatai, and Ogetei to besiege and capture it, while Tolui Khan
accompanied him to Bukhara. They took it and proceeded from thence
to Samarqand, which they conquered with all the [neighboring]
country. From thence they came to Nakhshab and Tirmidh, and from
Temur-Qahalqa,17 which is in the region of Badakhshan, he sent
Tolui Khan to conquer the province of Khurasan. [Tolui] set out and
in the winter captured Merv, Maruchuq, Sarakhs, Nishapur, and all
that region within the space of 3 months. In the spring, at the command
of Chingiz-Khan, he returned from Nishapur and on the way captured
Quhistan and all that region as well as Herat. He joined Chingiz-
Khan at Talaqan when he had just taken the castle and was engaged
in destroying it. That same summer, together with his brothers
Chaghatai and Ogetei, he accompanied his father in pursuit of Sultan
Jalal al-Din to the banks of the Indus. They defeated the Sultan's
army, and [the Sultan] himself fled across the river. Returning thence
they came to their ancient yurt and their ordos.
15 Probably to be read Pei-Jiu and identified with P'ei, the modern Peichow, in
northern Kiangsu, mentioned in the Yuan shih (Krause, p. 32) amongst the eleven
towns north of the Hwang Hostilluncapturedattheendofi2i3.
16 Polo's Achbaluch, that is, T. Aq-Baliq, which, like the Mongol name, means
"White Town." Jing-Din-Fu is Cheng-ting fu (Chengting in Hopeh). See Polo I,
pp. 8-9.
17 "Iron Gate." On the name, see above, Section I, p. 61, note 260. It is here
applied, not of course to Darband, but to the pass, some 55 miles south of Shahr-i
Sabz in Uzbekistan, known today as the Buzghala Defile.
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