{"book":"adl1197","page":76,"text":"- 63 -\n\nAt the time when the prestige of Yar Mohamed Khan as\nthe ruler of Herat had reached its highest point, at Kabul the reign\nof Amir Doust Mohamed Khan obtained, and Kandahar was in the\nhands of Sirdar Kuhandil Khan. Political relations between Kabul\nand Herat were cordial and on account of the family connection of\ntwo royal house they became even more friendly; for Yar Mohamed\nKhan had given his daughter in merriage to Vazir Mahamed Akbar\nKhan; and on the death of Vazir Mohamed Akbar Khan, the second\nson of the Amir married the widow of his brother. But on the\ncontrary there was a great tension between Sirdar Kunhandil\nKhan and the ruler of Herat. This animosity it was that compelled\neach of these contestent to ask the help of the Persians; and each\nof them wrote in his individual manner to Mohamed Shah, the Ka-\nchar king. The Persians were, however, rather afraid of the growing\nstrength of Yar Mohamed Khan, therefore, they wanted to assist\nKuhindil Khan; but his death destroyed this plan. Apart from this\nwhen Naziruddin Kachar came upon the throne of Persia, dangerous\nsituation arose for the Tehran government in Meshad; this was in\nthe shape of the revolt of Saifuddoullah, the deposed governor of\nthat city. Humza Mirza was appointed to punish the revel. The Vazir-Yar\nMohamed Khan saw a chance for further strengthening himself at the\nexpense of this Persian Fracas, for he noticed that this would wee-\nken the Persian urge against Herat; and thus he was not quite sure\nas to what to do for the best, because he was still friendly towards\nthe Persian kings; and wanted to help Humza Mirza. Both of these\nrivals were now the subject of attention of Yar Mohamed Khan. He\nwrote to both of them. He started with 8,000 fighting men towards\nMeshad. In \"appearance\" he showed favour more to Humza Mirza,\nand for that reason Nazir Uddin send him as gift a sword studdied\nwith jewels, and bestowed on him the title of Zahiruddoullah.\n\nIn as much as Amir Doust Mohamed Khan was desirous that\nhe should bring the whole country under one banner. and thus p-\nroduce a unity by taking Kandahar and Herat; both Kuhin Dil\nKhan and Yar Mohamed Khan opposed the Amir. In the year 1267.\nA.H. a struggle was imminent; Yar Mohamed wrote to Kuhim Dil Khan\nthat in place of both of them being at lagger head witn each other.","chars":2328,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00076.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/76","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/76","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."}}