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Rh city west of Ninguta, called Kirin, and in 1682-83 took part in the preparations for attacking the Russians at Albazin. He was deprived of all offices in 1683 because he reported a famine that did not exist. But from 1684 to 1696 he served in Peking as a lieutenant-general in the Mongol Bordered Blue Banner.

[1/249/2a; 3/267/3b; 4/114/16b; 11/10/10b; Ravenstein, E. G., The Russians on the Amur (1861) pp. 35–36; P'ing-ting Lo-ch'a fang-lüeh which appears in the Shuo-fang pei-shêng 1/3a (for both see under ); Russkiǐ Biograficheskiǐ Slovaŕ (1896-1913)]

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BAINDARI 拜音達里 d. 1607, bore the clan-name Nara and was beile of the Hoifa tribe which formed part of the Hūlun nation. (For the other three tribes, Hada, Yehe, and Ula, see under, and  respectively.) Baindari's ancestors possessed the family name Ikderi and belonged originally to the Nimaca tribe on the banks of the Amur river. Migrating southward to Jaru they put themselves under the protection of some Nara clansmen. Then, after slaying seven oxen in a sacrifice to Heaven, they exchanged their own name for that of their protectors. Six generations later one of their descendants, Wangginu, consolidated his position by establishing a city at Mt. Hûrki on the Hoifa river, where the natural advantages of his location enabled him to withstand repeated attacks from the Mongols. On the death of Wangginu his grandson, Baindari, murdered the seven uncles who might have stood in his way and proclaimed himself beile of the Hoifa. In 1593 he joined the confederation against which was unsuccessfully led by  of the Yehe tribe. Two years later Nurhaci retaliated by taking the town of Dobi from Baindari and killing two of his generals. In 1597 the Hûlun tribes agreed on a truce with the enemy and thereafter Baindari, whose territory was situated between the Yehe towns and Nurhaci's center of operations, wavered in allegiance from one to the other, finally deciding to trust in the impregnability of his city to defend him against both. In 1607, however, Nurhaci invaded the region, killed Baindari and his son, and thus put an end to the independent existence of the Hoifa tribe.

[1/229/13b; Hauer, E., K'ai-kuo fang-lüeh, pp. 29, 35–37; Ch'ing T'ai-tsu Wu Huang-ti shih-lu (see under ) 1/3b]

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BAISAN (Gioro) 覺羅拜山 (三), d. 1627, of the Bordered Yellow Banner, was a great-grandson of Baolangga 包朗阿, fifth of the six brothers who were called the ningguta beile, the fourth beile being Giocangga (see under ), grandfather of Nurhaci. When Nurhaci began his career of conquest by attacking, protégé of the Chinese, he was opposed by most of his relatives who foresaw disaster for themselves (see under ). Baisan, however, joined Nurhaci in 1585 together with other descendants of Baolangga. He took part in the capture of Shên-yang in 1621 and died in action at Chin-chou in 1627.

A son of Baisan, named Gûnadai 顧納岱, inherited the rank of baron of the third class. He was promoted to the first class in 1637 for meritorious service and in 1644 took part in the pursuit of to Shensi. In the following years he served under in various campaigns, and was killed in action at Nanchang in 1648. Gûnadai's son, Morohon 謨洛渾, inherited the rank of viscount of the first class. He was killed in 1660 while fighting at Amoy against. In honor of the three generations who had lost their lives in military service Emperor Shêng-tsu posthumously conferred on Morohon the hereditary rank of earl of the third class and the name, Kang-yung 剛勇.

[1/232/6b; 2/4/5b; 3/331/16a; 11/4/25b; 34/135/8b.]

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BANDI 班第, d. Oct. 4, 1755, general, was a member of the Borjigit clan, and belonged to the Mongol Plain Yellow Banner. A student in the government school for bannermen, he was selected in 1717 to fill a post of secretary to the Grand Secretariat. He passed through several minor offices including that of astronomer in the Imperial Board of Astronomy (1718). Appointed a sub-chancellor in the Grand Secretariat in 1724, he was sent the following year to Tibet to promulgate orders of Emperor Shih-tsung about the zoning of the area between Tibet, Szechwan and Yunnan. During the next few years he held the office of junior vice-president of the Court of Colonial Affairs (1727, 15