70 Cunningham's Inscriptions from Piparai. [March, 



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1. In the auspicious reign of the country-taking ruler, ...Mahmud , 



2. The taker of worlds, who for the honor of Islam draws the sword from the 

 scabhard 



3. Lord, may the qualities of the king endure for ever in the kingdom of the 

 world ! May he be successful like Alexander, and 



4. The possessor of the jagir (aqtd') of Trich, the warlike Khan Junaid, the 

 elevation of whose rank up to the heaven 



5. The brother as well as the pivot of the kingdom and the vazir of the Emperor, 

 the refuge of power , 



6. Ordered this noble religious edifice to be renovated, with a dome which in the 

 world 



7. The order for it was given by Qazi Ziyauddin, m^io is a Khan of the 

 kingdom, . . . 



8. The building was (completed) when it was Friday, the 4th Eajab of the year 

 815 A. H 



9. For the stringing of this (poetical) pearl the slave Mubarak 



10. (lUegible). 



Piparai, near Tsa'garh. 

 The following two inscriptions were found by General Cunningham 

 on an old mosque and on a well at Piparai, near Tsagarh. They refer to the 

 building of mosques during the reign of Mahmud Shah Khilji of Malwah 

 (A. D. 1435 to 1482). In the well inscription, the Persian is followed by 

 nine lines of Hindi (illegible). Although the inscriptions mention the 

 years 855 and 884, they look as if they had been written at the same time ; 

 for not only are the characters the same, but the phrases used in the one 

 occur in the other. The style is very bad ; the lines have different metres, 

 and several have no metre at all. The author, indeed, says that he gives 

 as good a specimen of the speech of the learned as he can give ; but his 

 rhymes are the only doggrel verses that I have hitherto seen in inscriptions. 



