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In his dying regrets Sher Shah confessed,
… I have three of four desires in my heart which will remain without accomplishment , and can not be eradicated except by death. One is, I wished to have transfer the inhabitants from country of Roh (country of Pashtuns) to the tract between the Nilab (river Indus) and Lahore, including the hills below Ninduna (Salt range of Punjab), as far as the Siwalik; that they might have been constantly on the alert for the arrival of the Mughals, and not allow anyone to pass from Kabul to Hind, and that they might also keep the (Punjabi) zamindars of the hills under control and subjection......... Another is to have entirely destroyed Lahore, that so large a city might not exist on the very road of an invader, where immediately after capturing it on his arrival, he (Mughal leader) could collect his supplies…. Another is, to have built two fleets of fifty large vassals each, as commodious as sarias for the use of pilgrims from India to Mecca.....the last is ,to have raised a tomb to Ibrahim Lodi in Panipat , but on the understanding that opposite to it there should be another tomb of the Chaughtai Sultans, whom i have may have dispatched to martyrdom;....
(The History of India as told by its Own Historians, vol. 5, Tarikh-i-Jahan Lodhi, p. 108)
… I have three of four desires in my heart which will remain without accomplishment , and can not be eradicated except by death. One is, I wished to have transfer the inhabitants from country of Roh (country of Pashtuns) to the tract between the Nilab (river Indus) and Lahore, including the hills below Ninduna (Salt range of Punjab), as far as the Siwalik; that they might have been constantly on the alert for the arrival of the Mughals, and not allow anyone to pass from Kabul to Hind, and that they might also keep the (Punjabi) zamindars of the hills under control and subjection......... Another is to have entirely destroyed Lahore, that so large a city might not exist on the very road of an invader, where immediately after capturing it on his arrival, he (Mughal leader) could collect his supplies…. Another is, to have built two fleets of fifty large vassals each, as commodious as sarias for the use of pilgrims from India to Mecca.....the last is ,to have raised a tomb to Ibrahim Lodi in Panipat , but on the understanding that opposite to it there should be another tomb of the Chaughtai Sultans, whom i have may have dispatched to martyrdom;....
(The History of India as told by its Own Historians, vol. 5, Tarikh-i-Jahan Lodhi, p. 108)
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