EPITOME OF THE MEMOIRS OF THE KHOJAS. 
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To Afaq were born two sons: Mabdl Khwaja and Hasan Khwaja. 
He repented of baying taken tbe country by tbe help of tbe infidel 
Qalmaqs, but said tbat be could now bold up bis bead again on account 
of tbe virtues of tbis Mabdl Khwaja. 20 Afaq presently died and was 
buried in tbe shrine called by bis name. 31 His widow Khanam Padshah 
remained at Yarqand with her son, who was then five years old; while 
Yahya governed at Kashgbar. 
Tbe Queen shortly afterwards went to pray at tbe shrine of her late 
husband. Yahya’s councillors represented to him tbat a woman was 
unable to bold tbe reins of government; tbe Kirghiz on one side, and tbe 
Qalmaqs on tbe other, were formidable enemies : be should unite Yarqand 
to bis own government and become Khan. He objected tbat be would be 
accused of injuring bis father’s widow, out of ambition; but one of tbe 
councillors said :—“ Modesty is out of place in affairs of state ,* by means 
of modesty tbe country may be ruined.” Tbe wife of a councillor 
reported tbis matter to tbe Queen, on which a quarrel took place. 
Tbe Queen returned to Yarqand and made her son Mabdl King there. 
After six months, tbis son’s adherents murdered Yahya Khan. He left 
three sons, two of whom were killed ; while tbe third, Khwaja Ahmad, 
was bidden away in a cave in tbe mountains. Tbe Governor of Kash gb ar 
was Zaid Beg, and be also was killed; but some time afterwards Khwaja 
Ahmad was put on tbe throne. Much bloodshed ensued from which 
tbe Queen earned tbe name of “Jallad Khanam ”—tbe executioner, or 
butcher, Queen. She herself was also murdered six months after tbe 
death of Yahya. 
After tbis Akbash Khan, tbe brother of Muhammad Amin, came to 
Yarqand and slew a thousand fanatics (dlwana). He put bis son, Sultan 
Abmadi Khan, on tbe throne of Kash gb ar 32 and married tbe widow of 
unrestrained in their wildness, and finally Akbash Kh an came and took Yarqand and 
restored order. He seized a thousand Diwanas and, at the Kaba-Ghatku gate, (the 
Aksu gate) cut their throats and made a mill go with their blood.” 
20 Mahdl was son of Afaq by his wife Khanam Padshah, the youuger sister of 
Isma‘11. But Hasan, according to Muhammad Sadiq was grandson of Afaq — ' - not 
son. He was son of Mahdl, as marked in the genealogical table. 
21 This was in 1105 H. or 1693 A. D. 
22 Muhammad Sadiq’s statement on this point is quite different. He writes: — 
“the people of Kashghar brought Kh waja Ahmad from the cave in the hills and made 
him their Khan.” This Ahmad, as we have seen, was son of Yahya and was a Khoja. 
The name of Sultan Ahmadl does not occur in Muhammad Sadiq s text. If he were a 
son of Akbash, he would have been of the line of Moghul Khans and not a Khoja; 
and there is no mention in the text of any son of Akbash. My impression is that the 
Epitome is in error on this point, and that ILfitvdja Ahntud should be the reading, 
without mention of any relationship to Akbash. 
