6 
LIVES OF THE MOGHUL EMPERORS. 
the fourth degree, Zingis, called by the Persians 
Jengyz Khan, born a.d. 1154; and from the second, 
in the eighth degree, the hero of the following me- 
moirs. 
“Jengyz, or Zingis, died in a.d. 1227, having divided 
his vast dominions among his four sons, called Jujy 
or Tuchy, Jagtay, Auktay, and Tuly, To the first 
of these was assigned the extensive kingdom of Kip- 
chak, or Great Tartary ; to the second, Turkestan 
and Maveralnaher (Transoxiana) ; to the third, Mo- 
ghulistan and northern China ; to the fourth, Persia, 
and that part of India west of the river Indus. Their 
descendants reigned over these countries till the time 
of Timur, who subdued them all; but, as neither 
Jengyz nor Timur assumed the title of Khakan (em- 
peror), there probably existed a more ancient and 
honourable family than either of them. The ancestor 
of Timur, named Kerachar Nuyan, was married to a 
daughter of Jagtay Khan, second son of Zingis, by 
which means the two families became doubly con- 
nected ; in consequence of which, Timur bore the title 
of Gurgan, son-in-law of the Khan. It also signifies 
a great prince,” 
At the time of Timur’s birth, his father, then only 
a nobleman at the court of the sovereign of Turkestan 
and Transoxiana, does not appear to have been a 
person of much political importance. Though the son 
frequently alludes in his Memoirs to the dignity of his 
family, it is evident that his own education was not 
at all exclusive, as an anecdote, related by himself, 
will show ; — it at the same time gives a strong inti- 
mation of the early bias of his mind. 
