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The Hotak dynasty

The Hotaki sept of the Ghilzai, as Royal Ark gives it from a forefather whose name it does not have: Mirwais Hotak, who made Kandahar independent of Persia in 1709, and his son Mahmud and nephew Ashraf, who took Isfahan and ruled Persia from 1722 to 1729.

16 descendants of an unnamed forefather.