{"book":"adl0970","page":114,"text":"77\n\nsuffer heavily. This roused them to immediate\naction. They resolved to adopt reciprocal measures,\nand to make up the deficiency in number by\nbold and rapid movements of their detachments.\nA body of their horse under Attai Khan marched\nmore than sixty miles, then detouring surprised\nGovind Rao's camp before daybreak. The enemy,\nnot prepared for such a move, retreated pell-mell,\nGovind himself was among the slain. This single\naction so demoralized the Marhattas that hence-\nforth they had not the courage to meet the\nAfghans in the open field. The Afghans, posting\nstrong pickets around Marhattas' camp, tried hard\nto cut off all supplies from reaching them. This\nstate of affairs dragged on for three months and\nno serious effort was made by the Marhattas to\npierce through the Afghan line and force a\nconvoy of food into the camp. With their\nnumerous attendants and innumerable camp\nfollowers, their stock of provisions soon ran short.\nBhao bore his difficulties with dignity and patience.\nThe Afghans, too, suffered for want of supplies\nand had to bring them from long distances. But\nthe patience, vigilance and activity of their leader\nenabled them to face these difficulties cheerfully.","chars":1197,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00114.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/114","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/114","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0970/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0970_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."}}