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

BEGINNING OF THE HISTORY OF OGETEI QA AN
was seated at the gate wondering whether his message had been
delivered. Suddenly the glad tidings were brought to him, and at
once the bdlish were handed over to him also. The same day there was
talk about Abyssinian eunuchs and Qa'an said, "Ask this person
whether he can obtain eunuchs." "That is my profession," said the
man. He ordered him to be given another 200 bdlish and a yarligh
for the journey. The man never returned.
[xxxiii] There was a person in Qara-Qprum who was in extremely
distressed circumstances. He made a cup out of the horn of a mountain
goat and sat down upon the highway. When Qa'an arrived, he stood
up and held out the cup. Qa'an took it and ordered him to be given
50 bdlish. One of his secretaries repeated the number of the bdlish,
and Qa'an said: "How long must I tell you not to deny my bounty
and begrudge petitioners my property? Though it goes against your
will, give him 100 balish."
[xxxiv] A Muslim had borrowed 4 silver bdlish from an Uighur
emir and was unable to pay the money back. They seized him and took
him to task, insisting that either he should abandon the pure faith of
Muhammad and, girding the zunndr, embrace idolatry or else be
paraded naked through the market and receive a hundred blows of the
bastinado. He asked for 3 days' grace, went to the audience-hall of
Qa'an and told of his plight. Qa'an ordered his creditors to be sent
for and found them guilty of coercing the Muslim. He gave the Muslim
the Uighur's house and wife387 and ordered the Uighur to receive
a hundred blows of the bastinado naked in the market-place, while
he presented the Muslim with 100 balish.
[xxxv] An 'Alid from Chargh near Bukhara, who was called the
'Alid of Chargh, had received some bdlish from the treasury for a
commercial enterprise. When the time came to make a payment he
said that he had already handed over the interest. They asked for
the receipt. He said that he had given the money to Qa'an in person.
He was brought into the audience hall, and Qa'an said: "I do not
know thee. Where, in whose presence, and when didst thou hand it
over ? " "Thou wert alone," he said. Qa'an reflected for awhile and then
said: "It is clear and certain [that he is lying], but if he is called to
387 Not" an Uighur wife and house" as in HWC, p. 223.
8?