{"book":"adl0970","page":88,"text":"the innocent, men and women, old and young.\nAt last the Emperor himself was forced to inter-\ncede on behalf of his people through Asif-Jah, who\nwith dangling sword in his neck, is said to have\nspoken to the tyrant in these words: “None has\nsurvived the general massacre. If still the\ngreed of your soldiers is not satiated and they\nare bent on continuing their gruesome work,\nyou have to revive the dead first so that,\nyou may be in a position to kill them again.”\n(Zindakuni wa baz kushi). Nadir, accepting\nhis request, gave an order to his soldiers to refrain\nfrom further action which, to his credit, was\ninstantly obeyed.\n\nNadir now began to exact his tribute of\nmoney and Jewels. The possessions of the\nnobles and wealthy merchants were con-\nfiscated. Out of this he richly rewarded his\nofficers and men and dispatched a firman to\nPersia exempting all the provinces from taxation\nfor three years.\n\nThe work of collecting levy on the citizens\ntook sometime. When all returns were com-\nplete and Nadir had taken possession of the\nimperial treasures and jewels, including the","chars":1077,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00088.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/88","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/88","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."}}