{"book":"adl0970","page":117,"text":"80\n\nand thin of the battle. Far from this, on the\napproach of impending danger, Bhao's vanity\nvanished and his embarrassment increased with\nthe passing of time which had a most demoralizing\neffect on his comrades and followers. At last Bhao\nwas forced to ask Shujaud-daula to mediate for\npeace between him and the Afghan King. \"The\ncup is full to the brim\", he wrote in his distress,\n\"and cannot hold another drop. If anything\ncould be done, do it at once, or else answer me\nplainly ; hereafter there will be no time for writing\nor speaking\".\n\nIt appears that Ahmad Shah was not ready\nto negotiate a peace with his entrapped adver-\nsaries. The Marhattas, receiving no reply decided\nto lead an attack next morning.\n\nOn the seventh of January, 1761, at about\nthree in the morning, Ahmad Shah received the\nnews that the whole of the Marhatta army had\nmarched out of their camp with the intention of\nattacking the Afghans. Shuja-ud-daula, the\nfirst to get this information, came directly to\nthe Shah's camp and desired an immediate\naudience. Ahmad Shah soon appeared fully","chars":1068,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00117.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/117","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/117","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."}}