{"book":"adl0970","page":40,"text":"his conduct with such eloquence and arguments,\nthat the King, not only acquitted him of the\ncharges levied against him by Gurgin and his\nparty, but was pleased to grant him his favours and\nprotection as well.\n\nA man of common calibre might have been\nsatisfied with these successes. But to Mir Vais\nKhan this was only a stepping-stone to realize his\nnational dreams. His eloquent speech and manly\nbehaviour soon enabled him to have free access\nto the Shah. Mir Vais Khan now thought that\nthe time was ripe to strike a blow.\n\nHe always spoke of Gurgin's ability in\nhighest possible terms and at the same time\ngave his listeners time to reflect on the valour\nand prowess of such a resourceful general. He\nartfully insinuated and pointed out that the\ngovernorship of three major provinces (Georgia,\nKhermania and Kandahar), with which Gurgin\nwas invested, rendered him very formidable. He\nalso reminded them of his ability in holding out\nsuccessfully against the Imperial Forces at Tiflis.\nGradually he won his way and the debauched\nKing and courtiers began to feel that Gurgin","chars":1073,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00040.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/40","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/40","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."}}