{"book":"adl0970","page":98,"text":"61\n\nhearing the news, dispatched his eldest son,\nPrince Ahmad, at the head of a large force to\noppose the advance of the invading army. The\nPrince, who had not the courage to meet the\nAfghans in the open-field, entrenched himself\nnear Sirhind. Ahmad Shah on reaching the river\nSatluj, found that a powerful Mughal army had\noccupied all the available fords. With a con-\ntingent of 12,000 men, he crossed the river at a\nplace where there was no ford. Leaving the\nIndians in the rear, he made straight for Sirhind,\nwhere the Indians had left their heavy baggage,\ntreasures and surplus stores. Ahmad Shah took\npossession of these, sent a part of the booty to\nLahore, but kept the heavy guns with him, which\nhe needed badly.\n\nThe Imperial Army, on receiving the news,\nimmediately retraced its step with a view to\nintercept the Afghans, but on reaching Sirhind,\nlost courage and decided to entrench itself at a\nvillage called Manupur. A small body of horsemen\nthat Ahmad Shah had at his disposal could do\nlittle in face of such a formidable force, number-\ning at least 60,000 and supported by a much more\npowerful artillery. Ahmad Shah, like the great","chars":1145,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00098.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/98","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/98","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."}}