{"book":"adl0970","page":70,"text":"37\n\nthe Afghans, in spite of their inferiority in number\nas well as in equipment, fought with such valour\nthat the Turks were completely defeated, leaving\nmore than 12,000 dead on the battle-field. The\nrout would have been complete, had Ashraff not\nordered his men to desist from the pursuit of an\nenemy with whom he desired peace and wanted\nto live on the most amicable terms.\n\nThe Turkish general after his defeat was\nobliged to retreat hurriedly towards Kirmanshah.\nHe was in such a haste that he left a part of his\nartillery and almost all his luggage on the battle-\nfield. Ashraff did not even allow his men to\nplunder the stragglers. When Ahmad Pasha\nleft Kirmanshah and fell back on Bhaghdad, the\nAfghan Prince sent another deputation to his camp\nwith the message that he did not consider the\nspoils he had taken from his misguided co-religio-\nnists as lawful to himself or to his friends.\nMoreover he considered himself a prince and not\na robber. Ahmad might send for his treasures\nand property, and that everything belonging to\nhim and to those under his command, except\narms, would be scrupulously restored. Ashraff\nnot only performed faithfully what he had pro-","chars":1172,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00070.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/70","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/70","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."}}