Aoshe Shad

Aoshe Shad was a son of Chula Khan of the eastern Göktürks.^[1] He is named once, in 620, when he was passed over as his father’s successor.^[1]

Chula died in 620, soon after a stay of three days at Bingzhou.^[1] His wife, the Sui princess Yicheng, would not set up his son the Aoshe Shad, because he was ugly and weak.^[1] She set up Chula’s younger brother instead. He became Ilig Khan.^[1] The Tongdian has the same sentence.^[2] The Xin Tang Shu says that the princess cast him aside as mean and weak.^[3] The Zizhi tongjian uses the word for deposing, 廢. It says that she deposed him for being ugly and weak.^[4] In its account Chula had just planned to take Bingzhou and settle Yang Zhengdao there. Yang Zhengdao was the Sui prince he had made king at the court in exile. Chula died as he was about to set out.^[4]

The histories record nothing more of him. The Xin Tang Shu names another son of Chula with a title of similar sound, the Yushe Shad, 郁射設. He moved with ten thousand tents into the Ordos.^[3] No passage says whether the two titles belong to one man.