The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c28.54

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The king set out for his capital, but the great nobles, except Malik Nāib and his friends, marched and encamped at a distance from the royal troops and, on reaching Bīdar, refused to enter the city and were dismissed to their provinces. Shortly afterwards he commanded Fathullāh ‘Imād-ul-Mulk and Khudāvand Khān to accompany him to Belgaum, where he hoped to conciliate Yūsuf ‘Ādil Khān, but they, though they obeyed the summons, would neither march with the royal troops nor enter his presence, but saluted him always from a distance and chose their own road. From Belgaum he proposed to visit Goa, but the nobles refused to accompany him and when news was received that Vīra Nrisimha of Vijayanagar was preparing to attack the port, Yūsuf ‘Ādil Khān was sent to its relief. Fathullāh ‘Imād-ul-Mulk and Khudāvand Khān returned to Berar without permission, and the king withdrew to Fīrūzābād, where he endeavoured to drown his humiliation and grief in drink, and formally designated the young Mahmūd heir to the throne. Thence he returned to Bīdar where, on March 22, 1482, he died at the age of twenty-eight from the effects of incessant drinking, crying out in his last moments that Mahmūd Gāvān was slaying him.