LIST OF ARABIC AND PERSIAN INSCRIPTIONS, 1952-53.

	JODHPUR DISTRICT
107	Jodhpur.─Sardar Museum. Slab in the Museum, No. 1. From Posal, Nagaur.	….	….	A. H. 959, Rabī*I 12=1552 A.D., March 8 ; V.S. 1603.	Do. ; Sanskrit, Nāgarī.	Bilingual. Slightly damaged. The Persian version seems to record that his holiness, Shaikhu‘i Mashāikh Shaikh Sulaimān got vacated the posāl of Kīrat Chand and caused it to be handed over by Masnad-i-‘Ālī Yūsuf Daulat Khan Ḥusain Sūr. Invokes a curse on those who try to violate this order, For the Sanskritic portion, see No. 423-A of Appendix B.
108	Do. No. 2. From Nagaur.	Mughal	Akbar	A. H. 973=1565-66 A.D.	Persian, Nasta’līq	Mentions that a well was constructed during the reign of Jalālu’d Dīn Muḥammad Akbar by the orders of the Daulat Khān, Husain Qulī Khān.
109	Do. No. 3. From a mosque, Nagaur	Do.	Shāb Jahān	A. H. 1040, Muḥar ram 1=1630 A.D., August 10.	Do.	Assigns the construction of a mosque in the Maḥalla Arrāyār to Tayyib, son of Shahbād during the reign of Sultān Shihābu’d Dīn Shāh Jahān Ghāzi, during the term of governorship of Nawwāb Sipah Sālār Mahābat Khān, Khān-i-Khānān II. The date is that of the writing.
110	Do. No. 4. From Phulelao gate,Jodhpur.	….	….	A. H. 1092=1681 A.D.	Persian verse, Nasta’līq.	States “at the auspicious and happy time a voice from Hātif reached my ears saying that the fort of Islām was glorified by this victory”.
	UDAIPUR DISTRICT
111	Udaipur.─Victoria Hall Museum. Slab in the Museum. From near the fort Chitorgarh.	Tughluq	Ghiyāthu’d Din	….Jumādī I ….	Persian verse, Naskh	Fragmentary. Eulogises Ghiyāthu’d Din Tughluq Shāh and the pivot of the kingdom. Malik Asadu‘d Dīn Arsalān, the generous. Purport of the record not quite clear. The year and date are lost in the missing portion of the stone.
	SAURASHTRA SORATH DISTRICT
112	Junagarh.─Museum of Antiquities. Slab in the Museum, No. 1. From Pathanwadi mosque, Patan Sorath, District.	Do.	Muḥammad Shāh	A. H. 726, Dhi’l Qa’da=1326 A.D., Sept.-Oct.	Do.	States that this mosque was constructed during the reign of Muḥammad Shāh, son of Tughluq Shāh and during the governorship of Tāj-i-Duwal Aḥmad by Hamīd Ahmad.
113	Do. No. 2. From a mosque near the Mota Darwaza, Patan.	Sulṭāns of Gujarat	Ahmad Shāh I	A. H. 823, Ramaḍān 27=1420 A.D., October 5.	Arabic and Persian, Naskh.	Slightly damaged. Records the erection of a structure. obviously a mosque, during the reign of Sultān Ahmad I by Faḍlu‘llāh Aḥmad Abū Rajā.
114	Do. No. 3. From near the Mota Darwaza. Patan.	Do.	Do.	A. H. 836, Dhi‘I Qa’da 9=1433 A. D. June 27.	Persian, Naskh	Greatly damaged. Seems to record the removal by the order of the Sultān, of certain inconveniences and harra… ment caused on the occasions of marriage.
115	Do. No. 4. From the Mota Darwaza, Patan.	Do.	Qutbu’d Din Aḥmadd II	A. H. 859, Dhi’I Qa’da 11=1455 A.D., Oct. 13 ; V.S. I ………. Kārtika su………..	Persian Naskh, Sanskrit, Nāgarī.	Bilingual. Damaged and worn out. Seems to contain the purport of a royal decree issued by Sultān Qutbu’d Din Aḥmad II enjoining upon the government officials to abstain from any illegal deed or act as many cause oppression and injustice to the public.
116	Do. No. 5. From Pushnawada, Sorath District.	Do.	Do.	A. H. 862, Rabi‘I 15=1458 A.D., January 31.	Do.	Bilingual. States that during the reign of Sultān Qutbu’d Dīn, son of Muḥammad Shāh, this fort (ḥisār) was constructed by Malik Asad. (son of) Muḥammad, (son of) Mubārak Sul tānpūrī. The Sanskrit version gives the name of the place also—Pushnāwada—and refers to the kot, i.e., a fort (cf. Epigraphia Indo-Moslemica, 1935-36, p. 48, pl. XXXV (b) and 1939-40. p. 47, Indian Antiquary. 1879, p. 183). For the Sanskritic portion, see No. 433-A of Appendix B.