{"book":"adl1197","page":30,"text":"- 19 -\ntwenty one. In neighbourhood of Kandahar he ordered his trooops to measure swords with the men of his brother Zaman Shah; but due to the sagacity of that Elder, Sirdar Payanda Khan, moral persuation prevailed, and no bloodshed took place. Personal influence of Payanda Khan was great enough to have Humayun the right of his brother for the throne of Kabul. Humayun, however, continued to desire the therone; and roamea about in the regions of Kandahar, Farahe Bluchi stan and Sindh. his popularity did not go much beyond the precints of Kandahar; till he fell into the hands of the officers of Zaman Shah in the area of the Indus river; and was deprived of sight.\n\n* * *\n\nOn the death of Timour Shah in the year 1793, A. D. it was not an easy task to appoint, or to select a successor of the deceased king. In the absence of a will of the deceased, and due to the fact that many of the princes were not present in Kabul; opportuniy was seized by two sons of Timour to raise their standard; one by Mahmud and the other by Humayun. During the time of Timour Shah, several of the princes were made govenors of various provinces of the realm; such as Mahmud and Haji Firuzuddin in Herat, Humayun in Kandahar and Abbas in Pehawar. The news of the death of Timour was purposely suppressed by such well.wishers of the kingdom as Sirdar Payanda Khan and Mulla Abdul Hhafar Khan, fearig an internecine war-and in secret had resolved to place Zaman Shah on the throne of his father, for he of all was regarded as the most suitable successor amongst a concourse of twenty one princes; but inspite of these precautions, both at Kabul and in the provinces an atmosphere of disturbance swept over the entire scene; but no definite results came out.\n\nThose princes-the sons of the late king-who were at Kabul gathered at the house pf Prince Abbas; and elected him on their behalf as the king. But the above mentioned Elders and the ministered arrested these princes and being on the side of Zaman Shah, place all these princes in goal and infllicted upon them much radh hips.","chars":2067,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00030.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/30","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/30","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."}}