Iqtidar Alam Khan (2004). Gunpowder and Firearms: Warfare in Medieval India(en inglés). Oxford University Press. p. 109. ISBN978-0-19-566526-0. «At the Third Battle of Panipat (1761), Ahmed Shah Abdali had 2000 shaturnals which indicates that the popularity of these particular type of firearm was growing in the subcontinent down to the middle of the eighteenth century.»
