Udaypur उदयपुर ادے پور (Madhya Pradesh). Stepwell of the time of Shāh Jahān.

Author: S. Singh

Udaypur ادے پور (Madhya Pradesh). Courtesy Wikimapia.

Udaypur ادے پور (Madhya Pradesh). Stepwell of the time of Shāh Jahān. Courtesy Zenodo © सार्थक सिंह.

Community: Malwa epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
March 4, 2023
Udaypur tri-lingual stepwell inscription dated 1645 CE

Author: S. Singh

Udaypur (Madhya Pradesh). Stepwell inscription in Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit.

On a stone slab affixed into the right side wall of a stepwell known as Qanungo Baoli, located on the eastern outskirts of Udaypur, Vidisha District, Madhya Pradesh. A tri-lingual inscription of 13 lines carved in relief with the first three lines written in Arabic and Persian in nastaʿlīq script, and the next ten lines written in Sanskrit in nāgarī script. It records the construction of the stepwell by Gokuladāsa and Dāmodaradāsa, sons of Qānungo Haridāsa of Māthura kāyastha family, during the reign of Mughal emperor Shāhjahān (r. 1628-58). The date is given in three different eras—vikrama saṃvat 1701, śaka 1566 and hijri 1054—equivalent to Friday, 13 January, 1645 CE.

Community: Malwa epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
December 14, 2022
Dhār stone slab of with the Rāüla vela of Roḍa

Author: H. C. Bhayani

Dhār धार دهار (Madhya Pradesh). Plan of the historical city after Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society v. 22. (© Royal Asiatic Society).

Dhār (Madhya Pradesh). Stone slab with the Rāüla vela of Roḍa (Zenodo).

Community: Paramāra epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
April 8, 2022
Dhār धार دهار (Madhya Pradesh). Tomb of Shaykh Kamāl al-Dīn (circa 1238-1330)

Author: Anon.

Dhār धार دهار (Madhya Pradesh). Plan of the historical city after Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society v. 22. (© Royal Asiatic Society).

Dhār धार دهار (Madhya Pradesh). Tomb of Kamāl al-Dīn Chishtī (c. 1238-1330).

 

Community: Malwa epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
June 9, 2021
Singhpur stepwell with an inscription of VS 1535/1479 CE

Author: S. Singh

Singhpur (Ashoknagar अशोकनगर). Rājmatī stepwell (Wikimapia).

Singhpur stepwell inscription of VS 1535 (© Saarthak Singh).

Singhpur stepwell, damaged companion inscription (© Saarthak Singh).

Singhpur (Ashoknagar). Stepwell with inscriptions in mixed Sanskrit recording the construction of the stepwell by Rājamatī in VS 1535.

Community: Malwa epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
May 12, 2021
Singhpur inscription dated AH 836/1433 CE

Author: M. B. Garde

Singhpur inscription of AH 836 (= 30 May 1433) records in Persian that during the reign of the king of this world, conqueror of Orissa and Jājnagar, Shāh Hūshang, Malik Haybat Nizām Jāshghūrī excavated this “flowing bounty” (i.e. the tank) in the name of Shaykh Burhān, son of Yaqūb. 

Community: Arabic and Persian epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
May 12, 2021
Ujjain stone inscription (part a)

Author: M. B. Garde

Ujjain (District Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh). Satellite view (Wikimapia).

Ujjain (District Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh). Fragment of an inscription (Archaeological Museum, Gwalior).

Community: Paramāra epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
January 22, 2021
Mārīcī at Salihundam

Author: RAS SIDDHAM Team

Salihundam (Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh). Satellite view (Wikimapia).

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Salihundam (Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh). General view of vihāra ruins.

Salihundam (Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh). Mārīcī.

Community: Andhra epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
December 11, 2020
Temple at Cong An ប្រាសាទជើងអង with inscriptions on the inner jambs.

Author: Étienne Aymonier

Temple at Cong Ang ប្រាសាទជើងអង or Cheung Ang, Cambodia. Satellite view (Wikimapia).

Temple at Cong Ang ប្រាសាទជើងអង or Cheung Ang, Cambodia. From N. E.

Temple at Cong Ang ប្រាសាទជើងអង or Cheung Ang, doorframe showing attached pillar and inner jamb with part of inscription K.99.

Community: Khmer epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
July 16, 2020
Ruined brick tower of Práḥ Thãt Khnai Van

Author: Philip Jenner

Community: Khmer epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
July 15, 2020