Note 303 — Chapter XIX · Sultan Sanjar and the Kara-Khitāys
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He was a descendant in the eighth generation of T’ai-tsu, or Apaoki, the first Liao emperor. Cf. Bretschneider, op. cit. i. 211; Visdelou, p. 28. For the various forms his name has taken, cf. Howorth on the “Kara-Khitāy,” J.R.A.S., New Series VIII. 273, 274.