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PRESTOR JOHN, THE KALABHRAS AND MAHABALI ; WHAT IS ONAM ALL ABOUT? M. M. NINAN ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the account, Prester John defeats an army of Medes and Persians before his failed to reach Jerusalem because he could not cross Tigris River. This will give us some idea of the direction in which Prester John came. It could only be from the East. The only possible direction of the movement of the army of Prester John is from Parthia, Bactria and beyond. It could never be from Ethiopia in Africa 8
PRESTOR JOHN, THE KALABHRAS AND MAHABALI ; WHAT IS ONAM ALL ABOUT? M. M. NINAN ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The problem here is that Otto von Freising does not mention the year of the battle. So the first attempt to identify the Prester John was to identify the war and its parties. However in 1141 the Persian Sultan Sanjar was defeated near Ecbatana. The Arabic historian Ibn-el-Athir (1160-1233) says that, in the year of the Hegira of 536 (1141), Sanjar, the most powerful of the Seljuk princes, had mortally offended his vassal the Shah of Kharezm. Shah of Kharezm took help from the King of China known as Ku Khan or Korkhan of China Korkhan of China known in Chinese as Yeliutasche. This battle is mentioned by many Arab and Syrian historians. As a result it was believed that the Prester John was the King o Karakhitai of China. . (The Realm of Prester John, Robert Silverberg, Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1972) Here is what we know of Seljuk Empire. The Imperial family of the Seljuk Empire, the House of Seljuk, was a member of the Kinik Oghuz Tribe. The Kinik tribe was living north of the Aral Sea in the 9th century, when it was ruled by the Oghuz Yabgu Kaghanate. Under the leadership of Seljuk (originally Selchuk), their leader, they migrated to Jend, a town located near the border, and became 9
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Prof. Madathilparampil Mammen Ninan
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