{"book":"adl1197","page":27,"text":"-61-\nshape during that night of refuge at that fort are the stories of wonder and amazement. The should be so for when a person arrives at a place in the evining as a king, very same personalty goes out of the very same door as a captive.\n\nDuring that night the king not only forfeited his greatness his importance, his crown and jewels, his power and prestige: but also sight. This unfortunate king, who was emersed in the thoughts of far and near, of schemes of far reching importace and significance; and despite all the misfortunes that had attended his efforts had yet a hope of success in the future; he found himself in an eternal darkness as the gloom of night was giving place to the radiance of the morning sun. Zaman Shah was in the Punjab in the year 1216. A. H. when his contesting brother, who had been rendered helpless and districted by his endeavours received the co.operation of an experiemced man, like Fhteh Khan; and accompanied by him and taking the Seistan route attacked and took Kandahahar, that city he took after a seige of 42 days from Mehr Ali Khan of Asaq Zai, the last named being entitled Shah Pasand Khan; who after the fall of Kandahar took the sad news to Zaman Shah at Peshawar.\n\nZamn Shah postponed the steps which he wanted to take against Ranjit Singh to another occasion, returned to Kabul and then immediately bent bis steps towards Ghazni. Ten thousand soldiers, lead by Ahmed Khan Noor Zai and his son Prince Nasir were ordernd by him to engage those in possession of Kandahar. At a place known as Sar Asp, lying between the Killat Ghilzai and Muqur, the Noor Zai Sirdar-the commander of the king-surru ndered to Mahmud and Prince Nasir was obliged to beat a retreat. Meantime, Zaman Shah returned to Kabul from Ghazni in order to-prepare a stronger force for himself; bus plan was upset; so that in place of gainig further support, those whom he had amongst his troopers, they, too deserted him. All that remaied with the king were his minister Wafadar Khan, Zaman Khan Popul Zai and amongst his troops, he had then only two hundred horsemen and four houndrea foot soldiers. With this small following he started on the robd to Jalaladad.","chars":2181,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00027.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/27","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/27","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."}}