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

THE SUCCESSORS OF GENGHIS KHAN
He had also one of Tolui's wives, called Nayan Khatun, of the
Qpnq'irat people, and thatyurt had been transmitted by [Sorqoqtani
Beki] to Ariiq Boke. When Qutui Khatun2'2 came to these parts,2'3
she left Jurnqur and Taraqai in that ordo. None of Hiilegii's people
being left there, they said: "How can we leave such an ordo empty?"
And they placed Oghul-Tegin Khatun there. At the present time that
ordo belongs to Odege, who is now eighteen years old: he is in attendance
on Melik-Temiir and has a wife called Baiqa, the daughter of
Ja'utu Noyan of the Siildus people, a grandson of Sodun Noyan.
Ar'iq Boke's second son was ordered by the Qa'an to administer the
ordo of Lingqun Khatun,2'4 the daughter of Kushliig Khan, a wise and
able woman, who was the mother of Prince Qutuqtu. Qutuqtu had a
son, called Tiikel-Buqa, by a concubine, called Buta Egechi,295 of the
Qi'pchaq people. This Tiikel-Buqa died upon reaching puberty.
[Qutuqtu] also had two daughters. His elder daughter, Kelmish
Aqa, was given in marriage to Salji'utai Kiiregen of the Qpnq'irat
people. His younger daughter, Shirin Aqa, born of Qunduz Egechi
of the Baya'ut people, was married to Tuqchi Kiiregen of the Ushin
people. When Lingqun Khatun died, she left a daughter, called El-
Temiir, who was married to Bars-Buqa Kiiregen. In place of her,
Melik-Temiir married the daughter of Taran Noyan, the grandson
of Olduqur Noyan of the Jalayir, called Gilte Khatun, and placed
her in this great yurt. Thatjiurt had fallen to the lot of Hiilegii Khan,
but on account of the distance and the absence of members of his
uruq Melik-Temiir has taken possession of it. By this Gilte he has no
children. He has also another wife called Tore,2'6 the daughter of
Shiregi of the Dorbet, one of the great emirs of the jasa'til.297 By her
he has two sons: one called Oiratai, who is in attendance on his father,
292 The wife of Hulegii and the mother of the Il-Khan Tegiider (Ahmad).
293 That is, Persia, where she arrived during the reign of Abaqa. See Arends,
pp. 69-70.
294 Or Linqum Khatun. She was one of Tolui's widows. See above, p. 160. On
her name, derived from a Chinese title, see Campagnes, p. 221; also Doerfer, I, No.
359 (PP-493-94)-
295 Verkhovsky has Tuba-Ikachi. The Mongol word egechi, "elder sister," is used
here in the sense of "concubine." See Doerfer, I, No. 67 (p. 101). Cf. immediately
below, Qunduz Egechi.
296 Verkhovsky has Bura, that is, Bora.
297 Apparently to be understood as a plural: theyasa'ul (of which jasa'ul is a variant
form) was, in Timurid times, an officer concerned with discipline and the enforcement
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