{"book":"adl0970","page":58,"text":"25\n\nby several other towns. The disheartened Afghans\nreturned to Isfahan from every quarter. When\nMahmud heard of these occurrences all over\nthe country, he feared lest Isfahan might\nshare the same fate. He had not sufficient\ntroops at his command. His army was\nreduced to about 15,000 men, while the male\npopulation of Isfahan and its suburbs was still\nin proportion of more than 20 to 1 to the\nAfghans. The probable revolt of the capital\nseemed the most immediate danger, so Mahmud\nresolved to have recourse to strict measures in\norder to safeguard his position. He arrested\nsome of the Persian nobles and put them under\nstrong custody. He then recruited many Kurds\nin his army, because he could get little help from\nKandahar at this critical juncture. Aided by\nthese new levies, Mahmud now made every\neffort to make himself master of the principal\ncities of southern Persia. He had little difficulty\nin reducing Kelpaigan, Khwansar and Kashan.\nNassarullah Gabr, who had joined Mahmud in\nKirman when he first entered Persia, was now\nemployed to conquer the province of Fars. He\nsucceeded in subduing almost every town in that","chars":1127,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00058.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/58","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/58","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."}}