{"book":"adl0970","page":77,"text":"42\n\nmeet the oncoming Afghans. A hand-to-hand\nbattle ensued in which fortune once more\nfavoured the Persians. The Afghans leaving\nabout 4,000 dead on the battle-field, fled into\nthe city of Isfahan. But finding their position\nuntenable even there, they departed before day-\nbreak with all the members of their families.\nNadir, marching from Murchakhur, entered the\ncity triumphantly on the 16th of November, 1729.\nOne of his first acts was to make a diligent search\nfor the Afghans. All those who were found were\nruthlessly massacred. The lofty mausoleum of\nShah Mahmud was levelled to the ground in an\ninstant. The Afghan's line of retreat could be\neasily traced by the dead horses and camels they\nhad left on the roads, and by the slaughtered\nold men, women and children, who, unable to\nkeep up the pace of the flight, had been executed\nby their own relatives and friends to prevent\ntheir falling into the hands of their ruthless\nenemy.\n\nOn the 24th of December Nadir came out of\nIsfahan with a view to pursue the Afghans, who\nwere heading for Shiraz. At Zarqan, 21 miles\nnorth-east of Shiraz, he found Ashraff awaiting","chars":1121,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00077.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/77","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/77","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."}}