{"book":"adl1197","page":184,"text":"-165 -\nhusband,so that she might become mother to another son like Azad\nKhan, who might have great qualities of bravery of an Afghan;\nthe Afghan woman replied there would be no such man as Ahmed\nShah, to whom a son like Timour-a just and a good king may be\nborn, nor would there be another Haji Karim Dad Khan, her decea-\nsed husband from whom a son like Azad Khan was to be born. The\nreply pleased the king greatly and she was highly honoured. The\nsmall son of Azad Khan went to Kandahar and lived during the reign\nof Timour Shah.\n\n* * *\n\nTIMOUR SHAH DURRANI AND THE PLAN OF\nVAZIR SHAH WALI KHAN.\nARTICLE FORTY THIRDTH\nAbout the events of the Saduzai dynasty, the events of the\ncoming upon the throne of Ahmed Shah Durrani, and\nthe reasons of the plans of Vazir Shah Wali Khan it is impossible\nto arrive at a denifite conclusion. The real and the hidden meaning\ndiffer, and as documents in this connection are few and for between\nare quite vague on's judgement ought to be carefully weighed.\n\n* * *\n\nAlthough the number of wives and the sons of His Majesty\nAhmed Shah Durrani are not correctly known, yet he is said to\nhave had six sons, whose names are given below: Prince Timour,\nPrince Sulaiman; Prince Sikandar, Prince Shahab, Prince Darab and\nPrince Parwaiz. Prince Timour was the eldest son of Ahmed Shah,\nwhose mother belonged to Bahsood of Jalalabad. This prince had been\nappointed first as governor of the Punjab and then of Herat during\nthe life time of his father. These appointments showed the impor-\ntance of this prince in the eyes of his father.\n\n* * *\n\nIt is related that Ahmed Shah prior to his going out for a\nrest towards the Tobah mountains from Kandahar in the year 1187,\nA.H. (about 45 miles east of Kandahar) convened a meeting of his","chars":1758,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00184.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/184","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/184","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."}}