{"book":"adl0973","page":172,"text":"CHAPTER XIII\nPREPARATIONS—III\n\nSijinak.—The repulse at Charkh so much\ndisheartened the tribal lashkar that the\nsituation appeared desperate and hopeless.\nTo make a fresh attack seemed impossible.\nStories of the overwhelming strength of the\nenemy were circulating everywhere. Every-\none was in a panic and disinclined to continue\na losing fight. But the old veteran and\nhis brave and faithful brothers were full\nof hope and courage. Marshal Mohammad\nNadir Khan had foreseen that the usurper\nand his blood-thirsty followers were no match\nagainst an organized and united offensive\nfrom the south. The discomfited lashkars شکست خورده\nwere encouraged to rally once more. They\nwere made to understand the importance\nof a sustained effort and were also shown\nthe dark future that awaited the nation in\ncase of their delay in taking immediate and\nbold action. Their confidence was once more\ngained and they were prevailed upon to make\na fresh attack. Every one vowed to expel\n\n133","chars":972,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00172.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/172","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/172","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0973/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0973_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."}}