Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 100.3.9
History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 100.3.9
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100.3.9
Not having patience, however, to wait for his death, though he was then ill of a mortal disease, he caused the King to be put into a warm bathing room, and closing fast the doors and windows, so as to exclude the air, he lighted a great fire underneath, and the King was speedily suffocated. This parricide was perpetrated in the year 996. The deceased King was buried with due ceremony in the Roza garden; but his bones were afterwards taken up and conveyed to Kurbela, where they were deposited near those of his father and grandfather. Moortuza Nizam Shah reigned twenty-four years and some months. Alas! there is no stability in fortune; for endless is the circle of her revolution. Expect not thou to be free from the encroachments of time. For there is quarter to no one from his cruel sword.