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HISTORY OF THE KHOJAS OF EASTERN TURKISTiN. 
party had arisen, whose object it was to depose him in favour of the grand¬ 
son of Chiring Donduk—-the brother and chief general of Tse-Wang- 
Rabtan—whose name has been mentioned in connection with the invasion 
of Tibet. 
This Prince, called Ta-wa-tze by the Chinese, and Dabaji by onr author, 
was considered the legitimate heir, and his claim was actively supported by 
one Amursana who was not a Zunghar, but belonged to the tribe of Khoit, 
though he inhabited the same district as Ta-wa-tze, viz., Tarbagatai. 
After sundry adventures, these two, aided by some Kir gh iz tribesmen, fell 
upon Dardsha, defeated his followers and killed him, 1 when Ta-wa-tze was 
established as Chief of the Zunghar. 2 This, however, was not the result 
that Amursana had intended, and the allies, becoming rivals, soon came to 
blows with each other, the upshot being that Amursana was worsted and 
fled to China to seek aid for his cause from the Emperor. On arriving at 
Peking in 1754, Kien Lung received him with honour, found an excuse for 
condemning Ta-wa-tze and accorded the fugitive the help he had come to 
seek, in the shape of a mixed force under a Mandarin named Panti, who 
was Governor of the provinces of Canton and Kwangsi. 3 Within the 
year following, this army had reached the III Valley, Ta-wa-tze was attacked, 
and put to flight after scarcely any resistance. He crossed the Tien 
Shan and took refuge in the Khoja town of Ush Turf an, but was made 
prisoner by the Hakim Beg of the place, one Khoja Si Beg (the Hokis of 
the Chinese writers), and delivered over to the Manchu general who 
despatched him to Peking. 
The Emperor treated him with consideration, and appears to have 
entertained the idea of making use of him against Amursana, whom he evi¬ 
dently mistrusted, but both the prisoner and his son, who had been sent 
with him into exile, died before events had developed themselves, and with 
them ended the legitimate line of Zun gh ar chiefs. 
On Ta-wa-tze’s removal, his rival Amursana was set up as Khan of 
the Zunghars, but was kept in leading strings by the Chinese generals and 
closely guarded by the army which he had been the means of bringing 
into the country. This consisted now of only a detachment of 500 men, 
under Panti and one Kgo-yung-ngan, the bulk of the force having been 
1 See Howorth, I, p. 651, also chapter XIV of Muhammad Sadiq’s text, where, 
however, they are both (erroneously) styled nephews of Galdan Chiring. 
3 A Chinese author of the last century says Amursana surprised, and killed Lama 
Dardsha in his tent, then went and offered the crown to Ta-wa-tze, knowing himself 
to he of too low extraction to wear it. (See Gueluy, Chine occidentale in Le museon, 
1887, p.103.) 
? According to Gueluy’s author this force consisted of Manchus, Chiuese, Solons 
(a tribe of Manchuria) and Chakars (a Mongol people), lb., p. 104. 
