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| No. | Findspot | Dynasty | King | Date | Language |
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| 64 | Archaeological Museum. Slab in the Museum, No. 3. From Hauḍ-i-Khāss, Chanderi, Guna District.
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Sultāns of Malwa | ‘Alāu’d Dīn Abh’l Muzaffar Maḥmūḍ Shāh. |
A. H. 872=1467-68 A.D. |
Persian verse, Naskh | Published in the Epigraphia Inda-Moslemica, 1939-40, p. 45. Pl. XIX (b). |
| 65 | Do. No. 4. From Chanderi, do. |
Do. | Maḥmūd Shāh | A. H. 918[?]=1512-13 A.D. |
Do. | Badly damaged and worn out. Seems to record the construction of a well by Makhdūm Shaikh Mūsā Qāḍī who is spoken of asSadr-i-Dīn, during the reign of Maḥmūd Shāh Khaljī. The date portion is damaged.
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| 66 | Do. No. 5. From Pawaya. |
Lodī | Sikander Shāh | A. H. 911, Rajab 2=1505 A. D., Nov. 29. |
Do. | Published in the Epigraphia Indo-Moslemica, 1935-36, p. 53, Pl. XXXVII (a). |
| 67 | Do. No. 6. From Chanderi, Guna District. |
Do. | Ibrāhīm Shāh | A. H. 930, Ramaḍān 9=1524 A.D., July 11. |
Persian, Naskh | States that this step-well was constructed during the reign of Ibrāhīm Shāh, son of Sikandar Shāh Lodi, by Malik Abu’l Fatḥ Muḥammad, son of Kamāl Naufilī who held the title of Falāḥu’l Mulk. Also mentions Sharafu’l Mulk as the muqtī‘of the Shiq of Chanderī.’ |
| 68 | Do. No. 7. From Narwar Fort |
Sūr | Muḥammad Shāh ‘ Ādil | A. H. 960=1552-53 A.D. |
Arabic prose and Persian verse, Naskh and Nasta ‘ līq. |
Comprises religious texts (Qur., chap. LXXII, verse 18 ; IX, 108 ; II, 255, and a tradition of the Prophet) and a poetical fragment stating that during the reign of Muḥammad Shāh‘Ādil, the mosque was constructed by Dilāwar Khān, a favourite deputy (nāib) of the king. Also mentions Sayyid Aḥmad, son of Walī Ḥusainī and his spiritual guide NāzirīShattārī as the composer and engraver of the record res pectively. It also mentions, in the margin, Khān Jahān, son of Munawwar as the ‘āmil. |
MADHYA PRADESH |
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| 69 | Nagpur.─Slab in the Museum, No. 1. From Batihagadh |
Tughluq | Ghiyāthu’d Dīn Tughluq Shāh | A. H. 725=1324-25 A. D. |
Persian verse, Naskh | Right corner at the bottom broken. States that during the reign of Ghiyāthu’d Dunyā wa’d Dīn, to whose justice the whole of India is grateful and with whose awe the whole of Turkistān is subdued, when Malik Juljīn(?) was the governor and Jalālu’d Dīn Aḥsan was the nāib muqṭi, this step-well was completed and that the name of the scribe who was shown much favour by the latter is Mushtāq(?) Uthmān. |
| 70 | Do. No. 2, From the western gate of the fort at Damoh. |
Sultāns of Malwa | Ghiyāthu’d Dīn | A. H. 885, Shawwāl 24=1480 A. D., December 27. |
Do. | Mentions the erection of the rampart on the western gateway of Dammūh during the reign of Ghiyāthu’d Dunyā (Khaljī) by Malik Mukhlisu’l Mulk, muqti’ of the place and a great    |
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