{"book":"adl1197","page":25,"text":"-14-\ndirection of Herat. Zaman Shah, however, had to keep on protecting\nhis realm from both directions.\n\nWhen Zaman Shah was in Kandahar in the 1219, A. H. (Moon\nCalendar) he received a letter from his brother Shah Shuja, who\nwas then the governor at Peshawar informing him of the reactionary\nattitude of Ranjit Singh. The king there upon appointed one named\nMahir Ali Khan-an Ishaq Zai-as the governor of Kandahar ; and\ntaking a large army marchd on to Peshawar on his way to the\nPunjab. This was a time, when Mahmud having taken action against\nHerat was on his way to Bukhara in ordre to seek assistance from\nthe Amir of Bokhara. But in Bukhara he was arreested ; but he was\nustimately able to escanpe by way of Khiva and Ishqabad to Tehran:\nand journey with Fateh Ali Shah up to Tarshaiz. But these help-see-\nking comings and goings nothing tangable resulted. These journeys\ndid not produce any resulte, till, however, one of the Afghan Sird-\ndars, one named Fateh Khan, came to join him ( Mahmud. ) The two\nthus allied resulved to attack Kandahar by going trough Seistan.\nMahir Ali Khan, who was appointed governor of Kandahar by Zaman\nShah, prioar to bis journey to meet Ranjit Sing, taking a body of\ntroops of five thousand foot and horse soldiers, gave battle-to Mah-\nmud and his ally Fateh Khan at Kushk-i-Nakhud ; bnt was defeated ;\nand retreated to Kandahar. The city was beseiged, and after a seig\nof forty two days, the city was surrundered to Mahud. Mahr Ali\nKhan hurried to Peshawar to give the news of the fall of Kandahar\nto Zaman Shah at Peshawar.\n\nThe king in anger, gave up his persuit of Ranjit Singh in the\nPunjab and started on the road to Kabul ; from where he marched\non to meet the forces of Mahud and Fetah Khan at Kandahar by\nway of Ghazni. Ten thousand soldiers, under the command of his son\nPrince Nasir and Ahmad Khan Nour Zai were then sent out towards\nKandahar. At a place called Sar Asp lying between Killat Ghilzia\nand Muqur the king's commander-Ahmed Khan Nour Zai-surrundered\nto Mahmud and the Prince had to beat a retreat. Zaman Shah retra-\necshid steps from Ghazni to Kabul in ored to strength his forces ;\nbut as soon as he reached Kabul, the few that he had as his\nsoldiers, deserted their ranks. The king now moved towards Jalala-","chars":2271,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00025.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/25","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/25","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."}}