{"book":"adl0970","page":126,"text":"89\n\nconsideration and again left him in full possession\nof the holy city. Shah Rukh, repenting his ingrati-\ntude, promised to remain loyal to the Afghan\ncrown and to supply a contingent of troops to\nserve the King. Besides, he gave his daughter in\nmarriage to Timur. Meanwhile, a detachment\nof Afghan troops under Sardar Jahan Khan had\nsucceeded in taking Tabbus, held by Ali Mardan\nKhan, an Arab chief.\n\nThe failing energy at last forced Ahmad\nShah to quit Persia. He returned to Kandahar\nfor a much needed rest. In the spring of 1773, he\nretired to the milder climate of the Toba Hills,\nin Achakzai country. But the malady grew worse,\nand in the beginning of June, 1773, the great\nconqueror and military genius passed away peace-\nfully at Murgha, in the fiftieth year of his age and\nafter a glorious reign of twenty-six.\n\nAhmad Shah was first and foremost a brave\nand intrepid general and a great military leader.\nAlways first in the battle-field, his personality\ninspired respect among his friends and followers,\nand struck awe and terror among his enemy.\nWithin a quarter of a century he was not only","chars":1104,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00126.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/126","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/126","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."}}