{"book":"adl1197","page":90,"text":"- 77 -\nKhan taking advantage of the situation, of course, added fuel to\nthe fire and incited the enraged people; thus trying to win them\nover to his side. Time marched, till, in the beginning of the yrar\n1239. A. H. Sirdar Yar Mhan due to illness and persuation of his\nbrother Sidar Ata Mohamed Khan left for Peshawar and placed\nSirdar Sultan Mohamed Khan in charge of .Kbaul\n\nSirrdar Doust Mohsmed Khan, who wattched the opportunity\nat Kohisistan in the north of Kabul; seeing the unpopularity of\nthe governor at Kabul, and the help that he could receive from\nthe Kohistanis Kabul and went straight to Bala Hisar and took\nthaf historical citedal. SdarSuiltan Mohtmed Khan went to Pes-\nhawar and Doust Mohamed Khan became the Amir of Kabul.\n\n* * *\n\nTHE MEETING OF AND CLASH OF AYUB\nSHAH AGAINST PURDIL KHAN\nAT BALA HISAR\nTWENTY FIRST ARTICLE\nAmongst those many drama c incidents which had taken place\nat Bala Hisar, is the meeting of Ayub Shah, the son of Timour\nShah; and Sirdar Purdil Khan, the son of Sirdar Paynnda Khan .\nThe first section was his son Prince Ismail; and the other Sirdar\nMihr Ali Khan. The king and the prince were compelled to meet\nthe Barak zai Sirdars of Kandahar but cantrary to the condi-\ntions as laid down which stipulated that Sirsdar Pur dil Khan come\nalone; he brought his brother and other of his companions, too,\ninto the citedal. The puurpose of the meeting ostensibly was about\nthe power over the throne and government and the wealth\nappertaining to it, and antagonism had attainea his highest point,\nmatters went to far as to firing and use of fire arms; and this\nuse of fire arms caused causualities. It such surcharged condions,\nquite naturally, whosoever, took the first aggressive steep, won; ; ;\nthis the reader would see after reading this article.","chars":1790,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00090.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/90","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/90","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."}}