In The Latter We Have
Nigudar, A Descendant Of Chaghatai, Trying To Escape From His Camp On
The Frontier Of Great Armenia.
Supposing the Persian historians to be
correct, it looks as if Marco had rolled two stories into one.
Some other passages may be cited before quitting this part of the subject.
A chronicle of Herat, translated by Barbier de Meynard, says, under 1298:
"The King Fakhruddin (of Herat) had the imprudence to authorise the Amir
Nigudar to establish himself in a quarter of the city, with 300
adventurers from 'Irak. This little troop made frequent raids in Kuhistan,
Sijistan, Farrah, etc., spreading terror. Khodabanda, at the request of
his brother Ghazan Khan, came from Mazanderan to demand the immediate
surrender of these brigands," etc. And in the account of the tremendous
foray of the Chaghataian Prince Kotlogh Shah, on the east and south of
Persia in 1299, we find one of his captains called Nigudar Bahadur.
(Gold. Horde, 146, 157, 164; D'Ohsson, IV. 378 seqq., 433 seqq., 513
seqq.; Ilch. I. 216, 261, 284; II. 104; J. A. ser. V. tom. xvii.
455-456, 507; Khan. Notice, 31.)
As regards the route taken by Prince Nogodar in his incursion into India,
we have no difficulty with BADAKHSHAN. PASHAI-DIR is a copulate name; the
former part, as we shall see reason to believe hereafter, representing the
country between the Hindu Kush and the Kabul River (see infra, ch. xxx.);
the latter (as Pauthier already has pointed out), DIR, the chief town of
Panjkora, in the hill country north of Peshawar.
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