[2] Ahmad Shah, the
Abdali, commanded the Afghan cavalry in the service of Nadir Shah,
and had the charge of the military chest at the time he was put to
death. With this chest, he and his cavalry left the camp during the
disorders that followed the murder of the king, and returned with all
haste to Kandahar, where they met Tariki Khan, on his way to Nadir
Shah's camp with the tribute of the five provinces which he had
retained of his Indian conquests, Kandahar, Kabul, Tatta, Bakkar,
Multan, and Peshawar. They gave him the first news of the death of
the king, seized upon his treasure, and, with the aid of this and the
military chest, Ahmad Shah took possession of these five provinces,
and formed them into the little independent kingdom of Afghanistan,
over which he long reigned, and from which he occasionally invaded
India and Khurasan.[3]
Shahrukh Mirza had his eyes put out some time after by a faction.
Ahmad Shah marched to his relief, put the rebels to death, and united
his eldest son, Taimur Shah, in marriage to the daughter of the
unfortunate prince, from whom he took the diamond, since it could be
of no use to a man who could no longer see its beauties.
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