{"book":"adl1173","page":122,"text":"- ۱۱۳ -\nشهرهای قدیم آریانا خودش بذات خود يك موضوع مهم و بزرگ و علیحده است و شاید برای تحقیق هر شهری به رساله های علیحده محتاج شویم درین اثر از تفصیل مزید در عمومیات صرف نظر نموده محض به حیث یاد آوری بصورت نمونه از هر ولایت مملکت یکی دو تمثال برجسته را مختصراً ذکر میکنیم :\nبلخ : تاریخ مملکت کهن ما دورۀ سراغ ندارد که « بلخ » به یکی از نام های خود دران یاد نشده باشد . هر چه به دوره های باستانی عقب تر نگاه شود قدیم ترین ماخذ ، قدیم ترین روایت ، قدیم ترین افسانه\nاز بلخ ، از شکوه بلخ ، از عظمت بلخ ، از زیبائی بلخ، از شهرت بلخ ، از آبادی بلخ ، از مرکزیت بلخ ، از سر سبزی بلخ ، از معرفت اولادان بلخ ، از دانش مردان بلخ ، از قریحۀ شعرای بلخ ، از نبوغ زعمای بلخ و بالاتر از همه از بسط نفوذ و حکمفرمائی پادشاهان بلخ حکایت میکند .","chars":724,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1173/00122.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":159,"title":"Āryānā اريانا","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1173/122","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1173/canvas/122","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl1173/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl1173_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."}}