{"book":"adl0970","page":121,"text":"84\n\nwounded, except Holkar, who had left the field\nvery early, when he found that balance had\nchanged in favour of the Afghans and that the\nMarhatta army was heading towards disaster.\n\nNever a victory could be more complete.\nThe Third Battle of Panipat was more decisive\nthan the previous ones. The whole of Hindustan\nlay at the feet of the conqueror. The greatest\npower that could oppose Ahmad Shah was\nsmashed to pieces and their towering edifice\ncrumbled to the ground. The British at this time\nhad not yet fully consolidated their position even\nin Bengal. As such they were no match to the\nAfghans, the victors of Panipat. To the Marhattas\nthe day of the Third Battle of Panipat was one of\nmourning and calamity, and with it their hope of\nan Empire vanished for ever. Grief spread over\nthe whole Marhatta people ; every one mourned\nthe loss of relatives or friends. The Peshwa,\nthe head of Marhatta Confederacy, could not\nsurvive this shock. He was so overtaken with\ngrief and sorrow that, retreating towards Poona,\nhe passed away. The confederacy itself sustained\nan irreparable loss. Before it could recover from\nthis shock and assume offensive once more, it","chars":1164,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00121.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/121","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/121","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."}}