LIST OF ARABIC AND PERSIAN INSCRIPTIONS, 1952-53.

No.	Findspot	Dynasty	King	Date	Language and Script	Remarks
	RAJASTHAN─concld. ALWAR DISTRICT─concld. *Alwar─concld.*
99	States Museum. Slab in the Museum, No. 2. from a well near Gumbad, Nangānwa.	Mughal	Akbar	A. H. 989, Jumādī II 10=1581 A. D., July 12.	Persian, Nasta‘līq	Records the construction of a well in the town of Naugānwa during the reign of Jalālu’d Dīn Muḥammad Akbar byShahbāz Khān and Sarwar Khān, sons of Nāthū Dhūsar. Further mentions that the right of property belonged to the builders.
100	Do. No. 3. From Tijara	….	….	A. H. 1013=1604-5 A. D.	Persian verse, Nasta‘- līq.	Gives the date of construction of a ḥammām (bath-house) by Iskaṇdar ‘Īsawī. Text composed by Ghubārī.
	BHARATPUR DISTRICT
101	Bharatpur.─States Museum. Slab in the Museum.	Mughal	Bābur	A. H. 934=1527-28 A. D.	Arabic and Persian, Naskh.	Damaged. Records that this Chabūtara was constructed during the reign of Zahīru’d Dīn Muḥammad Bābur and during the governorship of prince Muḥammad Kāmrān Bahādur by the great Amīr Nasīru’d Dunyā wa’d Dīn Zahīru’l Islām wa’l Musliman Amīr Khān Muḥammad(?).
102	Elamda.─Slab lying near the tomb calledPīr by the local residents.	….	….	A. H. 783=1381 A. D.	Do.	Comprises religious texts in Arabic, mostly admonitory, alongwith their translation in Persian, followed by the words,‘commemoration of the hopeful creature Shaikh Mas‘ūd ‘Īsā Afghān’ and the date.
103	Another slab in the same place	….	….	….	Do.	Much damaged. Seems to be in continuation of the above epigraph. Contains religious texts intended as sermon and prayers, the latter containing the name of Shaikh Mas’ūd ‘Īsā Afghān.
104	A third slab in the same place	….	….	….	Do.	Records the name Mas’ūd as the occupant of the grave in one of the verses that follow the traditions of the Prophet and also contains the saying of a saint Khwāja Imām. Ends with the word ‘tammat’ (end) which indicates that this is probably the concluding portion of the previous epigraphs (Nos. 102-3).
105	Cenotaph of a grave in the same place	….	….	A. H. 783, Shawwāl 1=1381 A.D., Dec. 19.	Do.	Gives the date of demise of Shaikh Mas’ūd ‘Īsā Afghān.
106	Another grave in the same place	….	….	A. H. 745, Shawwāl 1=1345 A. D., Feb.5.	Persian, Naskh	Gives the date of death of Shaikh Dā’ūd Thābit Afghān.