{"book":"adl0970","page":186,"text":"141\n\nall sides at the hands of Fateh Khan's brothers.\nShah Mahmud made a last stand near Ghazni.\nThe Vazier was once more asked to write to his\nbrothers to stop fighting and surrender them-\nselves to the Shah. Again he refused. The\nenraged Shah then ordered the unfortunate\nMinister, to whom he owed his crown twice, to\nbe put to death. The King-maker was literally\nhacked to pieces, but he bore his misfortune\nwith courage. He raised no cry, and did not\npray for mercy. He died as he had lived-brave\nand dauntless. The end of the Vazier was in\nreality the death-knell of the Durrani dynasty.\nIt roused the feelings of vengeance on the part of\nthe powerful Barakzai brothers. Dost Mohammed,\none of the youngest, was the first to strike success-\nfully. Shah Mahmud, together with Kamran,\nwere driven out of all their possessions except\nHerat, and the whole of Afghanistan was parcelled\nout among the Barakzai brothers.\n\nIn the confusion that arose, Afghanistan suffer-\ned heavily. Balkh was seized by the ruler of Bu-\nkhara, the trans-Indus districts fell to the lot of\nRanjit Singh, while the outlying provinces of Sindh","chars":1120,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00186.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/186","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/186","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."}}