The Nāṣirī Generations 58: XV. KHUSRAU MALIK, SON OF KHUSRAU SHAH, THE LAST OF THE MAHMUDI DYNASTY.

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Taj-ud-Daulah, Sultan-i-Halim, or the Mild Sultan, Khusrau Malik, ascended the throne at Lahor.
He was a monarch of excessive mildness and beneficence, unassuming, and endowed with many good qualities, but addicted to pleasure. As he came at the close of the sovereignty of his family, no prepossessing memento of him has survived, and the sovereignty of that dynasty terminated in him. Anarchy and disorder at last showed itself in the affairs of his government, and all the Amirs and lesser officials of the country, both the Turks and the free-born [natives], all became too powerful for him to deal with, and the servants of the state and governors of provinces and districts exercised independent power, whilst their sovereign abandoned himself wholly to pleasure.
Sultan Mu'izz-ud-Din Muhammad, Sam, used to advance every year from Ghaznin, and to possess himself of portions of Hind and Sind, until in the year 577 H., when he appeared before the gate of Lahor, and extorted a son and an elephant from Khusrau Malik, and then retired. Thus matters went on until the year 583 H., when he brought an army against Lahor and reduced it. Khusrau Malik was induced, under the faith of a treaty, to come out, upon which he was taken and sent off to Ghaznin, and from thence was removed to the capital, Firuz-koh, which was the seat of government of the elder Sultan, Ghiyas-ud-Din Muhammad, Sam. That sovereign gave orders that Khusrau Malik should be immured within the fortress of Balarwan, in Gharjistan.
When the affair of Sultan Shah occurred in Khurasan, and the two Sultans turned their attention to that important enterprize, they put Sultan Khusrau Malik to death in the year 598 H., and the latter’s son, Bahram Shah, who was confined within the fortress of Saifrud of Ghur, was also murdered, and the dominion and dynasty of Nasir-ud-Din, Sabuk-Tigin, became obliterated, and the sovereignty of Iran, the throne of Hindustan, and the territory of Khurasan came under the sway of the Maliks and Sultans of the house of Shansabani.
Khusrau Malik’s sons were Bahram Shah, Mahmud Shah, Jahan Shah, Mas’ud Shah, Malik Shah, and Khusrau Shah.