Do. No. 16

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Contains  the word Allāh only.

Do. No. 17

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Purport of the record not clear. Contains two lines : FatḥShāh majālis dār ne Jamāljī majālis dār ne and six words at the corners and top and bottom which are illegible.

Do. No. 18

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Damaged. Seems to contain invocatory verses meaning‘ Victory for ever . . . . . . O God, by virtue of (the sanctity of) Muḥammad, the Prophet.’

Do. No. 19

Contains only the words : Faqīr Qādirī Sayyid Mustafā.

Do. No. 20, received from the Jagirdar of Dargah, Bijapur District.

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Contains the words Allāh, the name of the Prophet, and a couplet in Persian giving the names of his four  companions. The last line bearing  the date is worn out.

Do. No. 21, originally from the Fatḥ Maḥal.

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States that  Sayyid Shāh Mardān, son of Sayyid Saifu’llāhḤusainī, constructed a mosque and a  garden in the land endowed for the twelve Imāms, the mosque having two wells, one inside and one outside, and the garden which was his property and purchased by him, having three wells, one outside and two inside ; that he endowed the garden for the mosque and also for his sons─Shāh Saifu’llāh, Shāh Asadu’l lāh and Shāh Lutfullāh’, with the condition that its trusteeship would remain with the latters’ mother and after her death, with them. No date.

Poona.─Museum of the Bhārata Itihāsa Samśōdhaka Maṇḍala. Slab in the Museum.

Fragmentary and damaged. Could not be made out. From the style of writing it appears to belong to not later than the 14th century A.D.

Persian verse, Nasta‘līq.

Published in the Epigraphia Indo-Moslemica, 1915-16, p. 5, Plate I (a).

Harrat Nizamuddin.─Headstone of  mīr Khuaraw’s grave.

Records the construction of the mosque by Ghaḍanfar, a servant of Nāṣiru’d Dīn Amīr ‘Abdu’llāh, during the reign  of Zahīru’d Dīn Muḥammad Bābur Bādshāh Ghāzī.

Palam.─Ghaḍanfar mosque. Northern arch of the central chamber.

A. H. 935=1528-29 A. D.

Contents same as above, except that this does not mention Bādur’s name. The date is given by a chronogram and the name Pālam is mentioned.

MADHYA BHARAT
GIRD DISTRICT

Gwalior.─Archaeological Museum. Slab in the Museum, No. 1. From Chanderi, Guna District.

A. H. 833, Safar = 1429 A. D. Oct-Nov.

Published in the Epigraphia Indo-Moslemica, 1925-26, pp. 21-22, Plate X(a).

Do. No. 2. From Singhpur tank near Chanderi, do.

A. H. 836, Shawwāl A. H. 836, Shawwāl 30.

Badly worn out. States that during the reign of the king of this world, conqueror if Orissa and Jājnagar, Shāh Hūshang, Malik Haibat Nizām Jāshgl ūrī  excavated this ‘flowing bounty’ (i.e. the tank) in the name of Shaikh Burhān, son of Ya‘qūb, who was a pearl, nay, a gem from ocean of existence ; the water of the tank came out as pure as that of Kauthar.

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