A History of the Mahrattas v1.c8.34

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when he was assassinated, at the instigation of Roopurwur Agah, and was succeeded by 5th Sultan, Mahmood Shah Bahminee, a younger son of the first sultan, died in 1396, and was succeeded by his son, 6th Sultan, Ghazee-ud-deen Shah Bahminee, who reigned one month and twenty days, when he was assassinated by Lallcheen, a Turkish slave, and succeeded by his brother. 7th Sultan, Shumse-ud-deen Shah Bahminee was dethroned, after a reign of less than six months, and succeeded by the son of Daood Shah Bahminee. 8th Sultan, Firoze (Rozi Ufzoon) Shah Bahminee, died in 1422, and was succeeded by his brother, 9th Sultan, Ahmed Shah Wullee Bahminee, died in 1434, and was succeeded by his son, 10th Sultan, Alla-ud-deen (the II.) Shah Bahminee, died in 1457, and was succeeded by his son, 11th Sultan, Humaioon Shah Bahminee, commonly called Zalim, or the tyrant, who died the victim of passion and cruelty in 1460, and was succeeded by his son, 12th Sultan, Nizam Shah Bahminee, died in 1462, and was succeeded by his brother, 13th Sultan, Mohummud Shah Bahminee, who died in 1482, and was succeeded by his son, 14th Sultan, Mahmood Shah Bahminee, who died in 1518, and his son, 15th Sultan, Ahmed Shah Bahminee was his nominal successor, who died two years afterwards, or in 1520, and to fill his place, 16th Sultan, Alla-ud-deen (III.) was set up as successor, but was afterwards strictly confined in 1526, when Kulleem Oolla Bahminee was the last on whom the title was conferred, and with him ended the Bahminee dynasty. [For an account and chronology of the Bahmanī dynasty, based on the latest research, see V. A. Smith’s O.H.I., bk. v, ch. i.)]