Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 59.2.8
History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 59.2.8
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59.2.8
Not long after this event, of which Sulim Shah was said to be the instigator, that Prince became afflicted with a fistula, of which he died, in the year 960, having reigned nine years. Like Sheer Shah, he was magnificent in his court equipage, and studied the convenience of travellers. From Bengal to the Indus he built an intermediate post-house between each of those which his father had erected, requiring that all who passed along the great road should be entertained at the public expence. In this year also died Mahmood Shah, King of Guzerat, and Boorhan Nizam Shah, King of Ahmudnuggur. In commemoration of the remarkable circumstance of these monarchs dying almost at the same time, the father of the author wrote a short epitaph, in which the words, "The ruin of kings," exhibit the date (i. e. 960.)