{"book":"adl1197","page":46,"text":"— 33 —\npython... Kamran, however, more. He invited the Vazir to a\nfeast at Herat, and blinded him ; and imprisoned him there ; all\nthis happening prior to his letter reached Kabul. After that he\nstarted towards Kandahar and Kabul. Afterwards they assassinated\nhim (Fateh Khan with utmost barbarity near a place called Saidabad\non the road to Ghazni in 1234. A. H. and he was burried within the\nprecints of the graveyard of Sheikh Raziuddin Ali Lala.\n\nOn his grave the fllowing epitaph is engraven:\n\n\"Alas! with the death of Fateh Khan due to the cruelity of\nthe evil forces of the world had embittered the cup of life! He\nwas a Durrani, and Barakzai and an Elder of the Clan ; like his\nfather he was too \"kingly\" and of high honour. It was he that\nbrought the wondering Shah Mahmud to the throne from Herat's\nwildernesses. He was the most noted Vazir amongst all men of\nPersia and Iraq ; atlast he, the man of great status and renoun,\nbrought the king to the position, where he could take his revenge\nfrom his rivals and enemies. Kandahar, Kabul, Sindh and Khora-\nsan were all reduced with his sword of justice and all lands were\ngiven peace and conntentment. He marched, too, to Meshad to\nreduce Iraq. His gifts were greater than those of Hatim Tai. His\nbattles against the Persians dimmed the power and war-adventures\nof Rustom amongst the Persians, and much else is written in pa-\nnegeric tone about him.\n\nMUKHTARUDOWLLAH: SHAIR MOHAMED KHAN.\n( The Bamizai and Shashuja. )\nTENTHE ARTICIE\n\nAmongst the Bomanzais, Shair Mohamad Khan, Mukhtarudow-\nllah has a high reputation. He was a minister of Shahshuja.\nThe importance of this man of great experience and prestige\nwas due to the fact that he and his brothers and sons he was\nable to carry through matters of great importance and delicacy.\nMukhtarudowllah, and members of his family had expectations to gar-\nnish their own interests after the fall of Kashmire. Sometimes, these","chars":1930,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00046.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/46","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/46","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."}}