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

HISTORY OF GUYUK KHAN
yarligks of each of them were taken from them and laid before the
author with the words: "Read thy Book: there needeth none but thyself to
make out an account against thee this day."20 [Only] Sorqoqtani Beki
and her sons preserved their honor and held their heads high, for they
had been guilty of no breach of the yasa. In his speeches Giiyiik
used to hold them up as an example to the rest; and he praised them
while he held the others lightly.
He confirmed all the yasas of his father and gave orders that every
yarligh that had been adorned with the al-tamgha" of Qa'an should be
signed again without reference [to himself].
Thereafter he assigned and dispatched armies in every direction,
sending Siibedei Bahadur and Jaghan Noyan22 with a large army into
Khitai and parts of Manzi and assigning Eljigitei23 with another army
to the West. And he commanded that of the Tazik armies in Persia
two out of every ten men should set out and reduce the rebellious
territories, beginning with the Heretics.24 He himself intended to
follow after. And though he had placed all those armies and conquered
peoples under the command of Eljigitei, he especially entrusted
to him the affairs of Rum, Georgia and Aleppo, in order that no one
else might interfere with them and the rulers of those parts might be
answerable to him for their tribute. He put to death 'Abd al-Rahman,
whom Toregene Khatun had sent as governor to Khitai, and gave the
countries of Khitai to the Sahib Yalavach. Turkistan and Transoxiana
he transferred to the Emir Mas'ud, and Khurasan, 'Iraq, Adharbaijan,
Shlrvan, Lur, Kirrnan, Georgia, and [the region] bordering
on India he entrusted to the Emir Arghun Aqa. And to all the emirs
and maliks that were dependent on each of them he gave yarlighs
and paizas, and important business was confided to them. He gave
the Sultanate of Rum to Sultan Rukn al-Din and deposed his brother.25
David, the son of Qiiz-Malik, he made subject to the other David.
20 Koran, xvii, 15. 2I See Glossary.
22 On Jaghan, the commander of Genghis Khan's " chief hazdra" and afterward
Ogedei's commander-in-chief on the borders of China, see HWC, p. 256, note 26.
23 This was the Elcheltay, "king of the Tartars," who sent an embassy to Louis
IX. See Papaute, pp. [i54]-[i55].
24 That is, the Isma'ilis, or Assassins.
25 For the somewhat complicated details of the rival Sultans' reigns, see Steppes,
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