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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
Mahim (finished in 1887 A.D.), is the following inscription of three lines, which is considerably worn by exposure to the weather :
در عهد دولت شهنشاه عالم پناه حضرت محمد همایوں بادشاه
خلد الله ملكه عمارت هذه المسجد توفیق یافت ....... .... قصابان قصبة مهم راس كنائید بتاريخ ماه شعبان سنه اثني ر اربعين وتسعمالة
"In the time of the reign of the king of kings, the refuge of the world, His Majesty Muhammad Humayan BadishAh
"May God perpetuate his kingdom 1-............... found grace to build the edifice of this mosque of the butchers of the city of Mahim. During the month of Sha'ban of the year 942" [began the 25th January 1586].
As some of the letters appear to be broken, it is not possible to decipher the whole inscription. A butcher's mosque is also mentioned at Nagor. The mosque was rebuilt in Aurangzeb's time, see inscription No. 40.
87. The rectangular sandstone that bears the following inscription is no longer in ritu. It is now fixed over the outer doorway of the court of the ruined mosque of the Qas dyan at Mahim. The inhabitants know that it is not in its original place; they say it belonged to a mosque in a quarter of the town called Daulatpur, the DaulatAbåd of the inscription. The size of the stone which is yet entire is 4' by 111 :
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم انا فتحنا لك فتقامبينا کشاد باد بشادي همیشه این درگاه سخراشهد ان لا اله الا الله
حضرت سليماني شير شاه حسین سر سلطان ترفیق یافت ببناء این مسجد در عهد دولت تند در مقام دولتاباد يوسف ابن حسن سر سید عالي بولتخان
ابقاد قصرا في الجنة والعتل
له
الله تعالى نبي من بني مسجد بني بامید ثواب حديث الله تعالى في الدنيا ر وقفه الله تعالى على العدل والمسان
جهل نه بود که میررسانید
سنه نهصد
المترم شهر رمضان في الحادي والعشرين من شهر المبارك الله الكريم الشعار
"In the name of the merciful and compassionate God! Verily, we have given thee an obvious victory. May this liberal door always be opened with joy! I testify that there is no god but God.
“In the time of the reign of the king, powerful as Salomo, Sher Shah, the son of Hasan Bar, Yasuf ibn Hasan Bar, the high Sayyid (surnamed) Daulatkhan, found grace to erect this mosque and the place of Daulata bad,
"In the hope of the reward of the prophet's saying He who builds a mosque will have a castle built for him by God Almighty in Paradise, and as for the merciful, God Almighty gives to him long life in the world and protects him for his justice and beneficence.'
It was on the 21st of the blessed and venerable month, month Ramazan of the year 949 [29th December 1642], when it became ready. God is the generous and the omniscient.'
Canningham's Roporta of Archeological Survey of India, vol. XXIII, p. 61. * Bee facsimile No. iii, on the plate at p. 138. Qard and qapdb occur in Hindustani (Shakespeare); se No. 40. * Qords Sør, xlviii, 1.
