LIST OF ARABIC AND PERSIAN INSCRIPTIONS, 1952-53.

	PUNJAB KARNAL DISTRICT
90	Panipat.─Jāmi ‘ Masjid of Bābur. Over the main gate.	Mughal	Bābur	A. H. 935=1528-29 A.D.	Persian verse, Naskh	Much damaged. States that the mosque, the well and four gardens were constructed during the reign of emperor Bābur the gold-bestower, at the instance of Khwāja Pahlawān Muḥammad, son of Ḥasan. The name of the dārāgha (Superintendent) has peeled off. Text composed by Shihāb.
91	Do. Over the central miḥrab	Do.	Do.	…..	Persian, Naskh	Fragmentary. The extant portion contains part of the Throne Verse (Qurān, ch. II. V. 225) and the words, ‘the construc tion of the mosque of his Majesty, the pole-star of the lesser firmament. Zahīru’d Dīn Muḥammad BāburGhāzī. , may his kingdom and sovereignty last for ever, and may his affair prosper ………………… Obviously contemporaneous with the previous epigraph.
92	Sonepat.─Shaikhzadon kī Masjid in Sarāi.On the arch.	Do.	Do.	A. H. 937, Ṣafar, 2=1530 A.D., Sept. 25.	Do.	Records the erection of a tomb by ‘Alī Khān, brother of Maḥmūd Khān Afghān, muqtī of Sonepat during the reign of emperor Bābur, (See Epigraphia Indica, Vol. II, p. 141).
93	Slab in the mosque of Qāḍīzādgān	Do.	Akbar	A. H. 967=1559-69 A.D.	Do.	Records the construction of a structure during the reign of Sultān Jalālud Dīn Muḥammad Akbar by Abbās, son of Bhura Sonpathī (of Sonepat).
94	Do.	Do.	Do.	A. H. 969, Rajab= 1562 A. D., March-April.	Arabic prose and Persian verse, Naskh.	Records the construction of a mosque, during the reign of Jalālu’d Dīn Muḥammad, probably by Qāḍī Aḥmad. The date is obtained by adding 5 to the numerical value of the name Qāḍī Aḥmad as indicated in the chronogram. See Epigraphia Indica, Vol. II, p. 142.
	ROHTAK DISTRICT
95	Rohtak.─Rājputōn kī Masjid. Over the central miḥrāb.	Do.	Bābur	A. H. 934, Rabā 11 to 1528 A.D., Jan. 3.	Persian, Naskh	States that the construction of this noble edifice, viz., tomb of Masnad-i-Ālī Fīrūz Khān was completed during the reign of emperor Bābur. See Epigraphia Indica, Vol. II, p. 144.
96	Slab in the Masjid-i-Khurd in the fort area	Do.	Do.	A. H. 930 (1523-24 A.D.)	Do.	Much damaged and obliterated. Records the construction of a mosque and a well (?) during the reign of Bābur.
97	Maham.─Pīrzādon kī Masjid. Northern wall of the prayer chamber.	Do.	Do.	A. H. 936, Rahī‘ l, 5=1529 A.D., Nov. 7.	Do.	Sates that during the reign of the emperor. Zahīrud Dīn Muḥammad Bāhur Ghāzī, the humble Khān Yūsuf Āghā, son of Shaikh Yūsuf, inhabitant of Ḥisār-i-Shādmān (in Transox iana), constructed the mosque in the town of Maham. (See also Epigraphia Indica, Vol. II, p. 148).
	RAJASTHAN ALWAR DISTRICT				Do.
98	Alwar.─State Museum. Slab in the Museum, No. 1. From Nauganwa, Alwar District.	Lodī	Buhlūl	A. H. 888, Muharr am 1483 A. D., February─March.	Do.	States that this building of the fort and the gate of the town of Nangānwa which had fallen in ruins with the lapse of time and passing of years, were constructed anew during the reign of Buhlūl Shāh the king, and during the governorship of Masuad-i-’ Āli ‘Alāwal Khān by Jalāl. (son of) Zakariyya, (son of) Aḥmad, (son of) Jalāl on 22nd Dhi‘l Qa’da and were completed in Muharram of the following year.