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and the date, 407 H. beihg quite clear, the name appears to read 
Jafari (?) Tagin and M. de Tiesenhausen in a notice of Count Stro- 
ganofE’s collection describes a very similar coin (Ko. 31) of the same 
name struck at Bukhara in 406. The first name may be doubtful, but 
the last cannot be read Tughan the is clear. It is therefore possible 
the name of this Khan was Tagin, and it is not probable a rival Chief 
ruled in Bukhara during these two years, although there were rival 
Afrasiyab Khans there shortly after, as for instance ’Alitigin, against 
whose tyranny Mahmud was appealed to on more than one occasion.* 
In 408 his dominions were invaded by a vast horde of settlers from 
Chin who had been displaced from their own lands, to the number of 
100,000 tents, (khargahs) equal to that number of families. The 
Khan resented the invasion in the name of Islam, summoning all be¬ 
lievers to his assistance, and though himself ill at the time, after much 
fighting drove them back, vast booty and many captives falling into the 
hands of the “ Musalman Turks ” and their allies. He died the same 
year, and was succeeded by another brother Abii-l-Muzaffar-i-Arsalan 
Khan, also styled Al-Asam, “ the deaf.” It was in this year that the prin¬ 
cess, ‘ the casketed gem of Tlak Kasr,” who had previously been be¬ 
trothed to Mahmud’s eldest son and who was afterwards married to 
Mas’iid, arrived at Balldi, which capital was illuminated ; and it was 
not long after that Mahmud made over to Mas’ud the government of 
Khurasan, with Hirat as his head quarters. Some accounts show this 
Arsalan as fighting with Mahmud in 410, and overthrown, but Mahmud 
appears to have made an expedition to India in 409, and another in 410, 
when he was absent from Ghaznin some four years. The date of Arsalan’s 
death is un('.ertain. 
The Subsequent Khans of Turkistan. 
History in the matter of these Turkistan Khans or Afrasiyabi maliks, 
as they are variously called, is nearly as uncertain as regarding the pre¬ 
decessors of riak. Some are mentioned as more or less intimately con¬ 
nected, both by marriage and alliance, with Mahmud and his immediate 
successor Mas’ud, and as a considerable power beyond the Oxus; others 
again in connection with the Saljuks, with whom they also intermarried, 
and who after a time may be looked on as the suzerain power to which 
they were at least nominally subject. These warlike, plunder-seeking 
sons of the desert kept moving further forward to the rich cities of 
* On the other hand No. XXIYhf the coin figured seems to read Tughan Khan 
but without mint and date or much legible the name of the Khalifah al Kadir 
B’illah. 
