LIST OF ARABIC AND PERSIAN INSCRIPTIONS, 1952-53.

No.	Findspot	Dynasty	King	Date	Language and Script	Remarks
	*MADRAS─concld.* *KURNOOL DISTRICT─concld.* *Kurnool─concld.*
84	Third slab, in the same place	Nawwāba of Kurnool	Ghulām Rasūl Khān	A. H. 1252=1836-37 A. D.	Persian verse, Thulth	Same as above. The composer of the chronogram in this case is Jauhar.
85	Fourth slab, do.	Do.	Do.	Do.	Do.	Another chronogram by Jauhar. Contents same.
86	Madras.─Government Museum. Slab in the Museum.	….	….	A. H. 1104=1692-93 A. D.	Persian verse, Nasta ‘- līq.	States that the Bāgh-i-Rāḥat Bakhsh (the comfort-giving garden) was constructed by Jahāngīr Khān. Published in South Indian Inscriptions, Volume V. p. 354, No. 862.
87	Do. Copper plate in the same place	Mughal	Farrukh Siyar	Jumādī II 1, Regnal year 2=1714 A.D., June 3.	Sanskrit verse in Telugu characters ; Persian, Nasta‘līq.	Bilingual. The Persian portion states that on the date mentioned, Todar Mal, alias‘urf) Srī Niwās Dās, son of Teck chand, son of Hans Gopāl, inhabitant of Chakwa Khurd in the pargana of Etāwah, who was the deputy (nāib) of Nawwāb Sa’’ādatu’llāh Khān, the dīwān and sūbedār of Karnātak, came to the pargana of Srī Mushnī in possession of the localzamīndār, and having had the darsan of Vārāh Swāmin made a grant of five villages, viz., KilPlūvangulī (Kīlpuḷiyaṅguli) and others, in accordance with the sanad of the said zamīndār, for the maintenance of the god. It ends with the impre- cation that whoever, whether a Hindu or a Muslim, does not abide by this order will be guilty of having deserted hisdharma and īmān. (cf. A Catalogue of the Copper-Plate grantsin the Madras Museum, p. 41). For the Sanskritic portion, see No. 15 of Appendix A.
	ORISSA CUTTACK DISTRICT	….	….
88	Jaipur.─Above the gate of the Durgāh of Bakhārī Sāḥib.	….	….	A. H. 1170=1756-57 A. D.	Persian, Nasta‘līq.	Mentions the construction of a stone enclosure in front of the sacred āstān with a garden full of trees inside.
	PURI DISTRICT
89	Bhubaneswar.─Provincial Museum. Slab in the Museum. From Quadam Rasul, Cuttack.	….	….	A. H. 1193=1779-80 A. D.	Persian verse, Nasta‘- līq.	Records the martyrdom of a person. Name not given in the epigraph though in all probability it is ‘Āqīl, who was ‘ Ḥātim of his age, Rustam of his time and Sāḥib Qirān’.