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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
The inscription on the right side seems to be of no historical value, and as I could not decipher the whole from the rubbing, I have omitted it.
18. From the Badis hahi masjid, 18 lines (size 232 by 125". -
بالخير ... ... ... و
دارد
بن یزید بن جبر
الغفور الله
على التوكل بمتاع
بالشکور واربعون رائنی الف سنه
جهان شاه دور
في بني مسجد
خان
معظم (sic) بنكاله رسوبه
الرحيم الرحمن الله بسم
میان
بن جهان صدر قال
شیرپور بلد
في مسجدا بنى
جهانگیر مشهور جهان شاه بحين
ومن يتوكل على الله قال الله تعالى
امره بالغ الله أن حسبه فهو
قدرا شي لكل الله جعل قد قال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم من بني مسجدا في الدنيا بني له الله تعالى سبعين
و اثنی و اربعین قصرا في الخره سنه الف
اربعون
و
اثنی
ر
الف
سنه
مسلمین
كل
في
کافي
الله
TRANSLATION In the name of the merciful and compassionate God ! ... .... Sadr Jahan, son of Miyan Jaya, son of Yazid, son of Daud, says
The mosque in the town of Sherpur has been built through the benefit of confidence in the forgiving God in the time of Shahjahan, the famous conqueror of the world, in the year 1042 (began the 19th July 1632). God Almighty has said " And whosoever relies on God," etc. (Qorán, Sûr. lxv, 3, 4). The Prophet (on whom may rest God's blessing !) has said “He who builds a mosque in the world," eto. A. 1042.
This mosqne has been built in the age of Shôhjahan in the Şuba of Bengal by. Mu'azzam Khån in the year 1042. Allah is a sufficiency for all the faithful.'
Sadr Jahan's poetry is not of the best. He was not Chief Şadr (Sadr. Jahán) as Sadr Jahân was who filled that office under Akbar and under Jahangir and whose name coincided with the title of his dignity. If we may be allowed to judge of his poetical abilities from the verses of the above inscription-which to be sure are not worse than thousands of others-it is to be hoped that he imitated the example of his name-sake above mentioned who also composed poems at first, but later gave up petry (ma'asir al Umard, vol. III, pp. 350, 351).
Mu'azzam Khân or, as his name properly was, 'Azam Khan Mir Muhammad Baqir Iradat Khan became Governor of Bengal after Qasim Khan in 1041. In the Riyae (pp. 207, 208) it is related that he could not keep the province in order as it ought to be. The inhabitants of Assam (Asham), neighbours of Bengal, plundered the frontiers unpunished (cf. also Munt. allubáb, vol. II, p. 132); they defeated 'Abd al Islâm with a great army of infantry and thousands of horse and made him prisoner with a large booty. After that, A.H. 1044, 'Azam Khån was dismissed and his post bestowed upon Islâm Khân, who undertook successful campaigns against the Raja of Assam. 'Azam Khân was appointed Governor of Allahabad. Sherpur which is mentioned in the last inscription
