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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
بهادر عالم کیر بادشاه غازي خلد الله ملکه رسلطانه تعمیر مسجد جامع قصبه مهم حسب الحكم اقس باهتمام بنده درگاه خواجه رحمت الله باتمام رسید الله تعالی مجاب رمستجاب کرداناد بمنه وفضله في التاريخ هفدهم شهر محرم الحرام سنة ثمان و
هجري رسنه عاشر جلوس مبارک سبعين رالف
"In the happiness-spreading reign, extended over all the earth And the time of the master of authority and dignity, the king "Of kings, the shadow of God in both worlds, Muḥammad Aurangzeb Bahadur 'Alamgir Badisha h-i-Ghazi-may God perpetuate his kingdom
“And his reign!-the repairing of the Jami' masjid of the town of Mahim, according to the holy order,
“Was finished through the endeavour of the slave of the court, Khwaja Rahmat Allah
“May God Almighty make him accepted and favoured through His kindness and wisdom ! -
“On the 17th of the month Muharram, the holy, A.H. 1078 [9th July 1667], in the tenth year after the blessed accession to the throne."
Sarbuland Khan Khwaja Rahmat Allah was a man of great consequence under Shahjahân and Aurangzeb, and died in 1090. But, as Sarbuland Khan received this title, which is omitted in the inscription, in the 30th year of Shahjahan (Maásir al Umará, II, 478), i. e. 1066, and as he was in 1078 in the Dakkan with Prince Mu'azzam, whence he came back in 1080, it does not seem probable that both were the same person. A homonymous person is named as a commander of 800 soldiers and 200 borsemen under Shahjahan (Badsháhnáma, II, 741).
40. The following inscription is engraved on a red sandstone (size: 11 by 7 inches), now lying on a heap of bricks in the ruins of the former mosque of the Qaşşåyån at Mahim; the whole is in a bad condition and the stone will probably get lost in a short time. The inscription contains eight lines, and is poorly cut :
الرحيم الرحمن الله بسم
(1) در عهد دولت و زمان
الظفر
ابر سبحاني ظل محيي الدين محمد اورنگ زیب
خلد الله ملکه غازي بادشاه
قصایان
مسجد را ر سلطانه
(؟) ............... جهان کیر ترتیب کرد در شهر رمضان سنه تسعين و الف
“In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. In the time of the reign and the life of the divine shadow Abu'l Zafar, Muhyiddin Muhammad Aurangzeb
