[317] The Kara-Khitāys were Buddhists.
[318] Cf. Müller, loc. cit.
[319] A.H. 537 (1142).
[320] Cf. De Guignes, loc. cit.; and Müller, ii. p. 174.
[321] Cf. De Guignes, iii. pt. i. pp. 256, 257.
[322] De Guignes (following Abulfidā) says A.H. 550 (1155).
[323] Cf. Müller, op. cit. ii. 173.
[324] Mīrkhwānd (ed. Vüllers, p. 183). Khwāndamīr (Habīb-us-Siyar) adds “Kunduz and Baklān” to the list.
[325] The word used is Khānsālār, which means the “Taster,” or “Table-Decker of the Household.”
[326] Mīrkhwānd (ed. Vüllers, p. 185) says that Kamāj and his son perished in this battle, but Hamdullah Mustawfi, in the Tārīkh-i-Guzīda, says they were spared.