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

THE SUCCESSORS OF GENGHIS KHAN
the Qa'an sent an army against Ari'q Boke, he placed him in command
of it [Qadan Oghul] killed 'Alam-Dar, the commander of Ariiq Boke's
army. Thereafter he was again in attendance on Qubilai Qa'an. He
had six76 sons, as follows:
Durchi. He had two sons: Sose and Eskebe.
Qipchaq. It was he that was with Qaidu and brought about an
agreement between him and Baraq. Qaidu sent him into Persia to
reinforce Baraq. Because of some trick he turned back disappointed.77
He had a son called Quril.
Qadan-Ebiik. He had two sons: Lahuri and Mubarak-Shah.
Yebe. He too was in attendance on Qaidu. He had two sons:
Oriig-Temur and Esen-Temiir.
Yesiider. His children are not known.
Qurumshi. His children are not known.
This Orug-Temiir78 was sent by Qaidu to the frontier of Khurasan.
When Nauruz fled and came to that region, he was together with
Oriig-Temur and gave him his daughter in marriage. When he came
back, Orug-Temiir was suspected of favoring the Lord of Islam (may
his kingdom endure forever /). Qaidu sent for him and put him to death.
He had eleven sons: Kiiresbe, Tuqluq-Buqa, Qutluq-Khwaja, Tuqluq-
Temiir, Abachi, Kiich-Temiir, Chi'n-Temiir, Chi'n-Bolad, Arghun,
Muhammad, and 'AH. Kiiresbe and some of his brothers are now on
the frontier of Khurasan in alliance with Sarban, the son of Qaidu.
[Kiiresbe] too is now under suspicion for the same reason. It appears
that Chapar sent for him and dispatched him thither.
Esen-Temiir had a son called 'AH Khwaja.
Seventh son—Melik
His mother too was a concubine, and he was brought up by Danishmand
Hajib in the ordo of Ogetei Qa'an. [He had] [sons:]
Toqan-Buqa, Toqan, — .79
76 Seven according to Verkhovsky, p. 17.
77 See below pp. 152-53; also Arends, pp. 74-75.
78 Apparently the son of Yebe, who is perhaps out of order and should be the sixth
son, as in Verkhovsky (p. 17), where, however, Oriig-Temur is shown as the son of a
seventh son, Ajiqi.
79 According to Verkhovsky's more complete text, Melik had six sons: Tuman,
Toghan-Buqa, Toghanchar, Toghan, Turchan, and Qutlugh-Toqmish. The Tiian
shih (CVII, p. 84) knows only of one son: Toqu.
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