Dai Setzen then said that he recently had a dream, during which a white falcon had alighted on his hand.
Ssanang Setzen has much more detail, and his narrative is interesting because, as Schmidt suggests, it apparently contains the only account extant of the conquest of the tribes of Manchuria.
His wife seems to have understood the enigmatical phrases, for Setzen says: "The sensible (!
Ssanang Setzen at this point introduces one of those quaint sagas, which, however mythical in themselves, are true enough to the peculiar mode of thought of the Mongols to make them very instructive.
Sanang Setzen several times mentions a city called Irghai, apparently in Tangut; but all we can gather as to his position is that it seems to have lain east of Kanchau.
Both Altai and Altun-Khan appear sometimes to be applied by Sanang Setzen to the Khingan of the Chinese, or range running immediately north of the Great Wall near Kalgan.
Setzen says Kúblái built about the same time with Shangtu and another city "on the shady side of the Altai," by which here he seems to mean the Khingan range adjoining the Great Wall.
Sanang Setzen puts the battle between the two, the only one which he mentions, "at the outflow of the Onon near Kulen Buira.
Sanang Setzen enumerates a variety of the wonderful acts which could be performed through the Dhárani.
Note that the Khanoolla, which we suppose to be the Altai of Polo, and here of Sanang Setzen, belongs to a range known as Khingan, whilst we see that Setzen elsewhere applies Altai and Altan-Khan to the other Khingan near the Great Wall.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "setzen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
