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| 10 | Do. No. 8. From Sherpore, Mymensingh District, |
Sultāns of Bengal | Saifu’d Dīn Fīrūz Shāh | A. H. 893=1487-88 A. D. |
Arabic, Naskh |
Too much abraded and damaged. Seems to record the construction of a gateway of a fort in the reign of Saifu’d Dunyāwa’d Dīn Abu’l Muzaffar Fīrūz Shāh. The reading of the date is tentative. The historical portion is preceded by the kalima and Shiite Durūd while names of the first four caliphs are inscribed in four corners respectively.
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| 11 | Do. No. 9 From Kalna, Burdwan District, West Bengal. |
Do. | Muzaffar Shāh | A. H. 897[?]=1489-90 A. D. |
Arabic, Ṭughrā |
Badly damaged. Seems to record the construction of a mosque by Muzaffar Shāh. |
| 12 | Do. No. 10. From Barabazar, do. |
Do. | ‘Alāu’d Dīn Ḥusain Shāh. | A. H..606. Dhi’l Ḥajja 13=1210 A. D., Jane 3. |
Arabic, Thulth |
Broken and fragmentary. Mentions the construction of some edifice, probably a work of public utility, by ‘Alāu’d Dunyā wa’d Dīn Abu’l Muzaffar Ḥusain Shāh. Son of Sayyid Ashrafu’l Ḥusainī. |
| 13 | Do. No. 11 | Do. | Do. | A. H. 916=1510-11 A. D. | Do | Mentions the excavation of a tank by the king. |
| 14 | Do. No. 12. From Kosh Valley, East Persia |
…. | …. | Do. |
Arabic, Naskh | Gives the date of death of ‘Alī, son of the late Khwāja Muḥammad. |
| 15 | Do. No. 13. Do |
…. | …. | A. H. 919, Rajab= 1513 A. D., Sep- tember |
Do | Records the demise of Daulat, daughter of Khwāja ‘Alī, the later being probably identical with the one mentioned in the previous epigraph. |
| 16 | Do. No. 14. From Gaur |
Sultāns of Bengal | ‘Alāu’d Dīn Ḥusain Shāh . | A. H. 920, Shaâbanâ 1514 A. D., Sept.- Oct. |
Arabic, Thulth | States that this mosque was built by Sikandar in the reign of Sultān ‘ Alāu’d Dunyā wa’d Dīn Abu’l Muzaffar Ḥusain Shāh. |
| 17 | Do. No. 15. From Motī Masjid, Aligarh |
Lodī | Ibrāhīm Lodī | A. H. 925=1519 A. D. |
Persian verse, Naskh | Records the erection of the fort during the reign of Sultān Records the erection of the fort during the reign of Sultān Mīthabin ‘Umar and Shihāb bin Munawwar who were the shiqdārand dabīr respectively. |
| 18 | Do. No. 16. From Gaur, Malda District. | Sultāns of Bengal | Nāsiru’d Dīn Nusrat Shāh | A. H. 931=1524-25 A. D. | Arabic, Thulth | States that this Jāmi mosque was constructed during the regin of Nāsiru’d Dunyā wa’d Dīn Nusrat Shāh, son of Ḥusain Shāh by Majlis-i-sa‘d. |
| 19 | Do. No. 17. From Kalna, Burdwan District. |
Do. | ‘Alāu’d Dīn Fīrūz Shāh | A. H. 933=1526-27 A. D. | Arabic and Persian, Naskh, |
Records the erection of the Jāmi mosque during the reign of ‘Alāu’d Dīn Fīrūz Shāh, son of Nusrat Shāh by Ulugṅ Masnad-i-Khāss Malik, the sar-i-lashkar and wazīr. |
| 20 | Do. No. 18. Do. | Do. | Ghiyāthu’d Dīn Bahādur Shāh | A. H. 939, Ramaḍān, 1=1533 A. D., March 27. | Arabic, Naskh | States that this Jāmi mosque was built during the reign of the just king-Ghiyāthu’d Dunyā wa’d Dīn Abu’l Muzaffar Bahādur Shāh, son of Muḥammad Shāh. Ghāzī. Its builder was Sarwar Khān. One of the nobles of the king. |
| 21 | Do. No. 19. From Persia | ….. | …. | A. H.967, Dhi’l Ḥajja 10=1560 A. D., September 1. | Do | Records the death of Bairam Shiblī. |
| 22 | Do. No. 20. From the old fort of Malda | Sultāns of Bengal | Saifu’d Dīn Fīrūz Shāh | A. H. 1089=1678-79 A. D. |
Do | Refers to the construction of a mosque during the reign of Saifu’d Dunyā wa’d Dīn Abu’l Muzaffar Fīrūz Shāh by Majliś-i Shihāb (?), The date cannot be read in the epigraph. The name of the builder is also not certain. |
| 23 | Do. No. 21. From Kosh Valley, East Persia. |
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Do |
Fragmentary. Contains only the words Allāh and ‘Alī. |
