ABSTRACT
Then Orochu Sigüsi of the Oyirad Buriyad caught a falcon from the Great Bayikhal Water, and conveyed it to the Holy Lord, and put the Buriyad people under his overlordship. Then, in his twentyninth year, the King-dog year, he went out to fly that bird of his. As he was going from the Olkhui River to the Ula River, Wangchug, the Khagan of the Jürchid, deserted him. The Lord in his anger drew up his army. However, the Ula River, having no ford, formed an obstacle. Andun Ching Tayiji, the son of Togtangga Bagatur Tayiji, tied the reins of a thousand geldings together, and went in, shouting, and they crossed over the water and besieged his town. The Lord issued an order, saying: ‘Give me ten thousand swallows and a thousand cats, and I shall raise the siege of your town.’ They immediately gave him these creatures in full number, and he tied hemp cloth to the tails of each swallow, and cotton to the tail of each cat, and set fire to them, and the swallows sought their nests in the town, and the cats ran over the roof beams of the buildings, and set fire gradually to the whole town. By means of this ruse he brought it into submission. The Lord took the daughter of Wangchug Khagan, Jalikhai by name, for himself, but, as they were returning, the Queen Jalikhai died on the journey.
