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Tag Archives: Mongol
Braided power: a brief note on the last great steppe power: the Mongol-Manchu system
We first read of matters pertaining to this note which some interest in books which had newly arrived at a library in our old city that we mainly visited for Sanskritic literature. We wished to summarize everything we had learned … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics
Tagged Abrahamism, Abrahamistic vandalism, bauddha, buddhism, China, Chinese belligerence, Ching, Chinggis Khan, English, French, Jurchen, Manchu, Mongol, Mongol religion, Mongolia, Mongols, religion, Taiping, world history
Some notes on the rise of Oirat power and the Jangar tuuli
After 1370 CE the power of the Qubilaid Mongols declined precipitously leaving Mongolia in chaos, with several contenders jostling for supremacy but none gaining any ground. As they were fighting each other, the Kirghiz lord Ugechi routed the Qubilaid Khan … Continue reading
Posted in Heathen thought, History
Tagged Army of Islam, China, Chinggis Khan, history, Mohammedanism, Mongol, Oirat, Uighur
Notices of Hūṇa-s in kāvya and an excursus on their origins and ethnicity
This article was originally published in a slightly modified form at IndiaFacts. Starting sometime shortly before 200BCE all the way down to the 7th century of the common era, there occurred a series of irruptions of Inner Asiatic peoples, who … Continue reading
Posted in Heathen thought, History
Tagged ancient Hindu thought, Hepthalite, Hindu, Hindu knowledge, Hun, Indo-Iranian, Iran, kAlidAsa, kAvya, medieval Hindu literature, Mongol
Poem on Sübütäi’s attack on Qazvin
The great Mongol Noyan Jebe upon receiving the news of the death of the Moslem Sultan Khwarizm Shah asked Chingiz Khan’s permission to extend their conquests westwards. At the head of 10,000 men he joined in the meantime with Sübütäi’s … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged Chinggis Khan, history, Jebe, Khwarizm Shah, Mohammedanism, Mongol, Qazvin, Sübütäi, world history
