{"book":"adl0710","page":97,"text":"افغانستان چهارم رشدیه\n۹۴\nاست چیزی دیگر بجا نماند.\nامید می رود که شهر شمیر غربی بار دگر در عصر اعلیحضرت\nامان الله خان غازی بتوجه تمدن شعارانه شان ترقی باخته\nخود را باز حاصل خواهد کرد - و بند سراج باعث پیشرفت ترقی\nتجارت آن خواهد گردید.\nبامیان\nوادی بامیان بمسافت ۵۵ میل در شمال غرب کابل\nمتصل مقام تلاقی کوه بابا و هندوکش واقع است - ارتفاعش از\nسطح بحر ۸۴۰۰ فٹ است - دره بامیان با حاجی گک بسیار\nسنگلاخ و مشکل گذار است - و در بعض جاهها بلندی آن تا\n۱۲ ہزار فٹ میرسد - از همین راه سکندر اعظم گذشته بود -\nشهر بامیان را چنگیز خان مغولی در ۱۲۲۲ تباه نمود - که اثرات\nآن تا امروز دیده می شود.\nبامیان از نقطه تاریخی اهمیت زیادی را دارا بوده چنانچه\nمغاره ها بزرگ و بتها طویل و عظیم الجثه تا امروزه روز بوده\nکه ترقی و ترفیع گذشته آن را مشاهد و ثابت اند - از\nمعدنیات کوه های آن معمور است - بامیان ذریعه سڑک\nپخته بکابل ملحق شده - و رفت و آمد موتر ها بر آن جاری","chars":842,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0710/00097.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":169,"title":"Afghānistān : muṭābiq-i prūghrām-i chahārum-i rushdīyah wa dār al-muʻallimīn / bi-taḥrīr-i Muḥammad ʻAlī Khān va taṣvīb-i Fayz̤ Muḥammad Khān افغانستان :افغانستان","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0710/97","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0710/canvas/97","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0710/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0710_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}