{"book":"adl0970","page":150,"text":"109\n\nsent an envoy to Shah Murad of Bukhara, protest-\ning against his giving asylum to Mahmud and asking\nhim to deliver him up to the Afghan King. Shah\nMurad, unwilling to offend Shah Zaman, ordered\nthe fugitive to leave his country. The Prince took\nshelter in Gurganj in Khwarizm. He did not\nstay there for long and entered Persia a second\ntime. It was here that he was joined by Fateh\nKhan Barakzai, the eldest son of Sardar Payanda\nKhan. The arrival of this Sardar inspired\nMahmud with fresh courage. Supported by the\nstrong arm of the King-maker, he determined to\ntry his luck once more.\n\nHe entered Afghanistan with no more than\nfifty horsemen. With the exception of the\nBarakzai Sardars, no other chief of influence\nespoused his cause. But fortune favoured him\nthis time and about two to three thousand men\ncame to his help. With the small force he\nadvanced on Kandahar and besieged the town.\nOn the forty-second day of the siege, Fateh Khan\nwas able to win over Abdullah Khan, a powerful\nchief of the garrison, to his side. Mir Akhor,\nthe chief of the defenders, fled for his life,","chars":1088,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00150.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/150","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/150","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."}}