{"book":"adl0957","page":274,"text":"221\n\nbrought her in the way of art and civilization has been inspired\nby the Herat of Hussain Baiqra.\n\nHerat is also noted for the beauty of its gardens. The\nmost important of these are: Takht-i-Safar, Bagh-i-Shahi,\nBagh-i-Kurta, Bagh-i-Rubat-i-Ghorian, Bagh-i-Maulana Jami,\nand Bagh-i-Qalicha. A great variety of game—deer, pheasants,\npatridges, markhor, hare and various kinds of birds are found\nalong the mountain sides and in the neighbouring plains.\nWater fowls are abundant at Rubat-i-Ghorian, Kolijang and\nAb-i-Jalil.\n\nOther places of interest in the province are: Kaminij,\nDar-i-Takht, Obeh, Saioshan and Badghisat. Of the natural\nbeauty of the last mentioned locality it is said that Nasr II, the\nSamanid Prince of Bokhara (913-943) once happened to visit the\nplace. He was so charmed by it that he would not quit it for\nfull two years. The courtiers then approached Rudaki, the\nPoet-Laureate, to induce the King to return to Bokhara. At the\nrequest of the courtiers, Rodaki improvised a poem and when he\nrecited it before the Prince, it is said, that Nasr was so moved\nthat he came down from the throne, mounted the horse of a\nsentinel on duty and set off for Bokhara in such haste that he\ndid not even care to put on his boots. The poem runs thus:\nThe Ju-i-Muliyan we call to mind,\nWe long for those dear friends long left behind;\nThe sands of Oxus, toilsome though they may be,\nBeneath my feet were soft as silk to me.\nGlad at the return of friends, the Oxus deep\nUp to our girths the laughing waves shall leap.\nLong live Bokhara ! Be thou of good cheer !\nJoyous towards thee hasteth our Amir.\nThe moon's the Prince, Bukhara is the sky;","chars":1648,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00274.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/274","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/274","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0957/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0957_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."}}