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

BEGINNING OF THE HISTORY OF QJJBILAI QA AN
ority is attached to their words, and we shall, if God the One and
Mighty so wills, adjoin to the history of Temiir Qa'an one of the stories
illustrating the authority enjoyed by Tanba Bakhshi.
«i OF THE DEATH OF OJJBILA1 QA AN
After reigning for 35 years and having reached the age of eightythree,
Qubilai Qa'an passed away in the morinyil, that is, the Year of
the Horse, corresponding to the year 693/1293-1294,237 and left this
transient world to his grandson, the Qa'an of the Age, the Illustrious
Monarch, Temiir Qa'an. May God grant many years of happiness and
good fortune to his noble uruq and in particular to the Emperor of
Islam, the Supreme Sultan Ghiyath al-Dunya wa'l-Din Oljeitii
Muhammad (may God cause him to reign forever !)"*
*t HISTORY OF THE RULERS OF MAGHIN AND THE
sultans, maliks, and atabegs of Persia, Syria, Egypt, the Maghrib, etc.,
who were contemporary with Qubilai Qa'an from the beginning of the
bichinyil, the Year of the Monkey, corresponding to the year 658/1259-
I26o,239 to the end of the morinyil, the Year of the Horse, corresponding
to the year 693/1293-1294 ;240 history of the strange and unusual occurrences
that happened during this period—briefly and succinctly related
History of the rulers of Mdchin during this period
Lizun, 41 years, then 26 years past 15 years.241
Tuzon,242 10 years, and after the said Tuzon a man called Shuju243
became ruler of that kingdom. When 2 years of his reign had passed,
the army of Qubilai Qa'an seized the whole of that kingdom.
237 Actually 1294. Born on the 23rd September, 1215, Qubilai, at the time of his
death on the i8th February, 1294, was m n's eightieth (not his eighty-fourth) year.
Rashid al-Din is more correct about the length of his reign—35 lunar years.
238 The mention of Ghazan's brother and successor, Oljeitii (1304-1316), shows
that this part of the work was written during his reign.
"9 Actually 1260. 24° Actually 1264.
241 Li-tsung reigned from 1224 to 1264, that is, approximately 41 lunar years.
The meaning of the other figures, which add up to the years of his reign, is not clear.
242 Tu-tsung (1264-1274).
243 Tu-tsung was succeeded by his four-year-old son Hsien, usually referred to as
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