{"book":"adl1197","page":94,"text":"-18-\nFrom the direction of Kabul Asad Khan, the brother of Fateh\nKhan moved eastwards; whilst Abdul Karim Khan was hurying\nwith his relieving force from Peshawar. But as the distance between\nJagdalik and Kabul was a short one, Asad Khan arrived at the\nfort, where Zaman Shah was detained, much quicker than the re-\nlieving force. Zaman Shah hid all jewels, together with the famous\nKoh-i-Noor, in a whole of the wall. The day not dawned, when\nNawab Asad Khan arrived at the gateway of the fort, and captured\nthe king; the king,s eyes wers taken out; and he was flung in the\ndungeon at Kabul at the command of Mahmud. The kings favourite\nand other of his companions were all assassinated. The barbarious\nact opend a gateway of grave conflict between the real brother\nof Zaman Shah-Shahshuja-and Mahmud, the step-brother of the\nunfortunate king Zaman Shah.\nAshiq, the Shinwari, who was the author or this nefarious act,\ndid not reap the fruit of his treachery. The theree years of Shah\nMahmud's reign terminated the reign of Mahmud prestige at the\nhands of Shahshuja; and the very act which Shahshuja perfor-\nmed was to arrest Ashiq, and had him hung. The valuable diamond,\nKoh-i-Neor, which had remained hidden in a hole in the wall of\nthe fort, was at last dicovered and handed over to Shahshuja.\nNote: According to some historical sources, like Tarikh Sultani,\nand Tufat-ul Habib Zaman Shah Sadozai, when imprisoned in the\nfort of the Shinwari Ashiq; the king placed the Kon-i-Noor and\nother jewels in a secret hole in a wall; and threw the Fukhraj\nin a riverlet.\nHUMAYUN.\nSIXTE ARTICLE\nPrince Hamayun was the governor of Kandahar during the\nreign of his father, Tamour Shah; and he considered himself the\nmost competent person to sit upon the throne of his father, des-\npite the number of his father's son being noless than","chars":1825,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1197/00094.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":205,"title":"Men and events through 18th and 19th century Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1197/94","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1197/canvas/94","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."}}