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

THE SUCCESSORS OF GENGHIS KHAN
suggested to him that they should go to the bath and tell the bathattendant
secretly to pour wine instead of water into the conduit, so that
it passed through the pipe into the basin of the bath, where they used
to drink it. The keziktens learnt of this and reported it to the Qa'an. He
ordered Radi to be separated from him by force and sent upon some pretext
to the town of ;234 and he was secretly put to death en route.
Now that he has become Qa'an, Temur Qa'an has abandoned
[drink] of his own accord and drinks seldom and little. God Almighty,
when he became a great lord, removed the love of wine from his
heart, whereas Qubilai had been unable to prevent his drinking either
by pleas or by compulsion. Despite his youth—and he is only twentyfive
years old—his august feet are always in pain, and he used to sit in
a palanquin on an elephant, but now does so less often because of
suspicions and rumors amongst the people.