Early Life
After the emperor Oyiradai’s death in 1425, the internecine war among Oirats led by Mahamud (Bahamu, Batula) and western Mongol clans led by Gulichi's family left the throne of khan vacant for several years as Mongol nobles who held the real power struggled for dominance. The central and eastern Mongol clans, in the meantime, proclaimed Adai as the great khan shortly after Oyiradai’s death in 1425, and the legitimacy of the Oirats, the leading clan of western Mongols was threatened, at least in name.
Toghtoa Bukha (or Toγtoγa Buqa) was the eldest son of Ajai who was a posthumous son of Emperor Elbeg (d.1399) and Öljeitü the Beauty. While wandering with his brothers in western Mongolia, Toghtoa Bukha met Mahamud's son and successor, Toghan taishi, of the Four Oirats. The latter married him to his daughter and wanted to use him as pawn. The Oirats crowned Toghtoa Bukha as their own khagan in 1433. This resulted in half a decade of the simultaneous existence of two khans supported by opposing Mongol clans.
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