{"book":"adl1197","page":106,"text":"- 93 -\nnot pessed, when Sirdar Kdohin Dill Khan retuned from Iran.\nThe minister Sirdar Mohamed Quli Khan of the puppet king, immedia-\ntely allied himself with the Sirdar Kohin Dil Khan. A battle\nwas fought at Houz Sung Sar, about 28 miles west of Kandahar;\nin which Kohin Dil Khan was successful; and it is the last of\nthose battles which were fought against the puppet king. There\nafter Sirdar Kohin Dil Khan held Kandahar and governed it.\n\nDuring the second period of reign of Amir Doust Mohamed\nKhan at Kabul, and a permanent rule of Sirdar Kohin Dil Khan\nat Kandahar, the two clashed due to the interference of Sirdar\nSultan Ahmad Khan; and it was possible that a battle might be foug-\nht between the two, near the Muqar river but matters were agreed\nupon without fighting. As a result Sirdar Kohin Dil Khan continued\nto rule over Kandahar; and Amir Doust Mohamed Khan held Kabul\nas the ruler. Personal animosity between the two, however, conti-\nnued to smoulder; till first of all Sirdar Mihr Dil Khan died\non Friday 27th of Jamaus Sani; and after him Sirdar Kohin Dil\nKhan went to answer his Master on Tuesday the 7th of Zilhijh.\nAfrer the death of these two Sirdar, difference arose between Sir-\ndar Rahm Dil khan and the sons of Sirdar Kohin Dil Khan over\nthe governorship of Kandahar; an appeal was made to Amir Doust\nMohamed Khan; Kandahar was taken by Amir Doust Mohamed\nKhan's son Sirdar Shair Ali Khan; thus Kandahar administration\nmelted away; and it became a province of the realm of Afgha-\nnistan, now ruled by Amir Doust Mohamed Khan.\n\n* * *\n\nTWO CROWING CEREMONIES\nARTICIE: TWENTY FIFTH\n(The barley and wheat heads)\nIn the year 1160.A.H. ( 1747.A.D. )a coronation took place at\nthe shrine of Shair SurKh of kandahar; and a similiar coronation\ntooK place at, Kabul- Siah Sung - in the year 1254.A.H. (1835.A.D:)\nboth of these being those simple ceremonies which mark the crowing\nof Afghan kings. Upon the crown of one the head of barley was placed","chars":1964,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00106.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/106","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/106","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl1197/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl1197_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."}}