{"book":"adl0970","page":38,"text":"7\n\nambitious spirit, were reasons for his being\nsuspected as the author of the past disturbances.\nHe was therefore arrested and sent to Isfahan\nunder a strong escort. Gurgin, having thus\nremoved the thorn from his side, the only person\nwho he dreaded and in whom he found all the\nqualifications necessary for a great leader, could\nnow breathe more comfortably. He put a garrison\nin the citadel inside the city of Kandahar, and\nsatisfied with keeping his Georgians round his\nperson, disbanded the rest of the army.\n\nMir Vais Khan, far from being disappointed\nby his banishment, tried to make the best of a bad\nbargain. He first of all endeavoured to study the\nPersians and get a first hand knowledge of the\nCourt, then to utilize the opportunity for the\nliberation of this countrymen. The character of\nthe Shah was too remarkable to escape his keen\nshrewd eyes. He was pleased to find him addicted\nto wine and women, which made him quite\nincapable of ruling his people properly. The\nreal power was in the hands of a few favourites\nand eunuchs, who were the real disposers of the\nGovernment posts. All offices and dignities could\nbe purchased and were given to those who paid","chars":1173,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00038.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/38","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/38","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."}}