A cube-shaped tomb that nobles wanted to be buried beside
Editorial contextThe list describes a masonry tomb of 'father' Baitak shaped like a cube, 3 to 4 fathoms across, where every Muslim prays and every noble ('white bone') wishes to be buried. It adds a stone tomb on the Irgiz said to hold Abulkhair, the Kazakh khan of the Little Horde (killed 1748), and notes the ruins of a town the Kazakhs call Dzhanket on the Syr Darya and of the 'formerly important town' Saraichik on the lower Ural.
On the Kowda (see before) is a masonry tomb of the father (ata) Baitak. It has the form of a cube 3 to 4 fathoms across. Every Muslim performs devotions here, and everyone of white bone, that is of the nobility, wants to be buried here. … On the Irgiz, at [the place of] the elder Barbi, p. 387, is a stone tomb in which Abulkhair is said to rest.
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Original wording
Am Kowda (S. vorh.) ist ein gemauert Begräbniß des Vaters (ata) Baitak. Es hat die Form eines Würfels von 3 bis 4 Faden im Durchschnitt. Jeder Muhamedaner hält hier Anbetungen, und jeder mit weißen Knochen oder von Adel, will hier begraben seyn. … Am Irgis des Acksakal Barbi S. 387. ist ein steinern Grabmahl, in welchem Abulchair ruhen soll.
About Kirghiz-Kaisaks (Kazakhs)
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