{"book":"adl0970","page":78,"text":"43\n\nhim with a small number of his faithful followers. Another engagement took place, in which Ashraff displayed unusual courage. Once more Nadir won the day, and the Afghans retreated in great confusion towards Shiraz.\n\nAshraff did not stop long at Shiraz. With such of his followers as were left, he endeavoured to reach his native-land via Seistan. Nadir again started the pursuit of the fugitive monarch. A fight took place at the Pul-i-Fasa, ten miles south-east of Shiraz, in which a number of the Afghans were captured, while many others were driven into the river and drowned. Ashraff, however, made good his escape. Nadir himself followed him, but finding that he was unable to overtake him, returned to Shiraz.\n\nAshraff, accompanied by a few faithful friends continued his journey in an easterly direction. Their numbers dwindled rapidly. Historians differ as to how this fugitive Prince met his end. Some surmise that he was at last recognised by a Baluch chief (one of the sons of Abdullah Khan), who at once slew him in the hope of getting a reward from Nadir. Others are of the opinion","chars":1099,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00078.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/78","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/78","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."}}