Mahmud has begun to succumb to insanity…

Mahmud has begun to succumb to insanity as well as physical deterioration.

A group of Afghan officers frees Ashraf Khan from the prison where he had been confined by Mahmud and on April 22, 1725, launch a palace revolution that places Ashraf on the throne.

Mahmud dies three days later, either from his illness—at it is claimed at the time—or murder by suffocation.