这个故事出自《蒙古秘史》。它是蒙古人用自己的语言写下的最早的历史著作之一，成书年代学者说法不一，常见的说法是1228年前后。蒙文原本早已失传，今天读到的是明朝初年用汉字给蒙古语注音、再附上汉语翻译的本子，叫作《元朝秘史》。故事里的阿阑豁阿，是书中记载的成吉思汗的远祖；她最小的儿子孛端察儿，被书中写成成吉思汗所属孛儿只斤家族的祖先。

The story comes from The Secret History of the Mongols, one of the earliest histories written by Mongols in their own language. Scholars disagree about when it was finished, and a common view is around the year 1228. The Mongolian original has been lost. What we read today is a version from the early Ming dynasty, in which Chinese characters were used to write down the sound of the Mongolian words, with a Chinese translation added, and it is called the Yuan Chao Mi Shi. Alan Gua is described in the book as a distant ancestor of Genghis Khan, and her youngest son Bodonchar is named as the forefather of the Borjigin family to which Genghis Khan belonged.

用箭讲团结的故事，在欧亚大陆流传得很广。《魏书·吐谷浑传》（北齐魏收奉诏编撰，约551—554年成书）里，吐谷浑国王阿豺临终前也让儿子们折箭，结论是「单者易折，众则难摧」。署名普鲁塔克的《君王与统帅名言录》里，斯基泰国王斯基卢罗斯用一捆标枪教他的八十个儿子；伊索寓言里也有一篇《老人和他的儿子们》。

Stories that teach unity with arrows are told across Eurasia. In the Book of Wei, written by Wei Shou around the years 551 to 554, the king Ahe of the Tuyuhun people also asks his sons to break arrows before he dies, and ends with the saying that a single arrow breaks easily but many together are hard to break. In a work credited to Plutarch, the Scythian king Scilurus teaches his eighty sons with a bundle of javelins, and Aesop has a fable called The Old Man and His Sons.

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