ABSTRACT
After that, in the year of the Dog,1 Elbeg Khagan ascended the Great Throne. When Elbeg Khagan was out hunting, he saw how the blood of a hare he had killed had dripped on to the snow, and said: ‘I wonder if there is a woman whose countenance is as white as this snow and whose cheeks are as red as this blood?’ Khuukhayi Dayu of the Oirad said: ‘There is a woman with such a countenance.’ He asked: ‘Who is that?’ He replied: ‘I should not say it, but if I am to say it I shall say it. Your daughter-in-law, Öljeitü Gooa Khung Bigichi, wife of your son Kharguchug Dügüreng Temür Khungtayiji,2 is as fair as that.’ Elbeg Nigülesügchi Khagan3 lusted after the countenance of his daughter-in-law and said to Khuukhayi Dayu of the Oirad: ‘My Dayu, you who let me see what I have not seen, who bring near what is distant, who satisfy my desires, go to her.’ In obedience to the Khagan’s command he went and said to the Lady:‘ The Khagan has sent me to say he wishes to see the light of your countenance.’ The Lady grew angry, and said:
‘Do heaven and earth consort together? Do exalted khans see their daughters-in-law? Has your son Dügüreng Temür Khungtayiji died? Has the Khagan become an ordinary man?’
