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August, 1927]
MOSLEM EPIGRAPHY IN THE GWALIOR STATE
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the mosque was completed in A.H. 806, only two years after the assumption of kingship, it is certainly the outcome of the early orders of this king, though the temple itself may have been pulled down by some previous invaders of Malwa. I read the text as under:
Inscription on Bina-nim-ki Masjid, Ujjain.
مدار زمان دلاورخان
شہ ملوک
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بدہر گشت چو خورشید در آخرین
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4
زیر گنبد این برج گنبد است نان ؟ بشر تمام بتاريخ صیصد و شش سال به یمن همت صاحب زمان دلاورخان ؟ مراد دنیا و دین در کنار او بادا بعون قاضي حاجات و خالق دوران
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Translation. 1. (1) King of kings, pillar of (supporter of the world, Dilawar Khan
2. (1) He is proved true like the sun in
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4. (1) Was completed in date eight hundred and (sixth) year.
(2) Through the felicity of the valour of the master of the times (world) Dilawar Khan. 5. (1) May the desires of the world and religion be in his skirt. (2) Through the aid of the Disposer of necessities (God) and the Generator of the times.
B.-A Loose Inscription picked up from débris at Ujjain. This fino epigraph was picked up from the débris, during operations in the heart of the (modern) town under a town improvement scheme, and is stored in a collection of antiquities maintained by the Madhav College, Ujjain. It consists of raised letters on a piece of basalt stone available locally and is reported to measure 18 inches by 10 inches. A line running round the margins at the top and both sides contains a quotation from the Quran in elegant Naskh characters, with an air of Tughra. The rest consists of ten lines (five couplets) of Persian verse in neat Nastâliq characters. The metre of the verse is Hazaj muthmin wafi salim.
. .(ہزج مثمن وانی سالم)
The racord after a eulogy of Emperor Akbar refers to the construction of a strong saraf in Akbar's reign--a portion of which still exists. The date, as found from chronograms contained in it, works out to A.H. 987=A.D. 1579, while that given in ciphers reads A.H. 986 = A.D. 1578. My reading of the text is as under :
A loose inscription picked up from débris at Ujjain.
.Top - اسد لا اله الا هو الحى القيوم لا تاخذه سنة ولا نوم له ما فی السموات
