{"book":"adl0970","page":149,"text":"108\n\nwas once more defeated and had to flee for his\nlife. This time Zaman Shah, pursuing him, laid\nsiege to Herat. Through the intercession and\nsolicitation of Mahmud's mother, the two brothers\nfor the third time came to terms. Mahmud was\nreinstated in his office. The Shah had hardly left\nthe city when he was pursued by Mahmud's sons,\nwho pretended to be ignorant of the decisions\narrived at. Zaman Shah, enraged at this apparent\ntreachery, returned and entered Herat triumph-\nantly. After appointing Kaisar, his son, the\ngovernor of the province, he returned to his\ncapital.\n\nMahmud, reduced to despair, fled to Persia\nwith his sons (1797). He approached the Persian\nking to help him in the capture of Herat.\nMahmud receiving no encouraging reply, endea-\nvoured to win some of the influential chiefs to\nhis side. Failing in his attempt to stir an\nuprising, he approached Mehr Ali Khan the ruler\nof Kauin and Berjend. With the help of this\nchief he advanced on Herat and laid siege to it.\nOnce more he met disaster and was forced to\nleave for Bukhara, where he was warmly received\nby the ruler of the country. Soon after, Zaman Shah","chars":1134,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00149.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/149","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/149","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."}}