{"book":"adl0970","page":119,"text":"the Afghans, who were greatly outnumbered,\nwere forced to give ground. Everything seemed\nto go against them. Shah Wali, seeing this\nmiserable plight of his friends, dismounted, and\nsword in hand, went forward to meet the enemy,\ndetermined to lay his life at the post. Nawab\nShujaud-daula was not far from the Grand\nVazier, but could not see his plight due to thick\ndust intervening between him and the Vazier.\nShortly afterwards he sent some one in that\ndirection to find out the cause of the suddenly\ndiminishing sounds of men and horses. To his\ngreat surprise, he learnt that the Grand Vazier was\nfighting on foot, reproaching his men for cowar-\ndice, and endeavouring to bring them back to\ntheir posts. “Tell Shuja”, he said to the messenger,\n“if he does not come at once to my assistance,\nI must perish.” But Shuja would not move.\n\nSeeing this, the King came in person with\nhis reserve to the assistance of his Vazier. The\nbattle now became stationary, though the advan-\ntage was still with the Marhattas, who came\nforward like the surging waves, confident of\ntheir victory. Ahmad Shah, rallying the fugitives\nand ordering all those who refused to obey to be","chars":1162,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00119.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/119","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/119","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."}}