{"book":"adl1197","page":31,"text":"20 —\n\nWhen Humayun and Mahmud, who were at Kandahar and at\nHerat heard the news of the death of their father; they at once,\neach at his own station, raised the banner of revolt and discord.\nWhen Zaman Shah, however, finally ascended the throne; he sent\na message to his brother Humyun at Kandahar, and inivited him\nto accapt him (Zaman Shah) as the king, But as Humayun, was\nolder than Zaman Shah, and during the time of the reign of his father\nTimour had held high administrative post; and considered himself\nas the rightful owner of his father's did not accept the profered\nin vitiation of his brother Zaman at Kabul; thus the troops of\nthe two claiment's for the throne mustered at a place called Bagh\nBubro-some locate it to be about two miles from Kandahar; whilst\nothers think that the place lay some two miles east of Killat-\nin order to reach conclusions. The matter did not arrive to any\nsanguinary stage; for the personal influence of Sirdar Payunda\nKhan (on behalf of Zaman Shah) and his strong pleas persudaed\nthe commander of Humayun's forces to come to a peaceful arran-\ngement; thus Mihar Ali Khan surrundred his troops; whilst Huma-\nyun retreated with his father-in-law to Kandahar, ard thence took\nthe road to Bluchistan: where he took refuge with Nasir\nKhan the Bluch. With this success, of course, Zaman\nShah found his position steadied, and the status of Payanea Khan was\nincreased in the estimation of the king of Afghanistan. After putting the\nmatters of Kandahar right, the king placed his son the Prince\nNasir on the govership of Kandahar under the guardianship of\nAbdullah Khan-Noorzai-because the prince was cnly a boy of seven\nyears of age. Zaman Shah, himeself marched on to Herat;\nfrom that place he returned after putting the local affairs right\nat Herat. From Kabul, the king journeyed towards Peshawar to\narrange matters in the eastern part of his realm; and then began\nto contemplate over his plans of a conquest of India\n\nHumayun, in the meantime, watching his opportunity finding\nthat his brother, the king was away from the capital of Afghanistan;\nstarted towards Kandahar once again from his hiding place of Blu-\nchistan. It is related, however that Zaman Shah, not being unaware\nof the designs of Humayun, prior to leaving Kabul for Peshawar,","chars":2280,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00031.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/31","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/31","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."}}