Photo: persian gulf1 · CC0Two Persian verse inscriptions that named Babur as the one who ordered the mosque and Mir Baqi as its builder, in AH 935.
In Beveridge’s rendering, the mosque was built by the command of the Emperor Babur by the ‘good-hearted Mir Baqi’, and the date is given in a chronogram as 935. Babur’s own memoir is silent: the pages of the Baburnama for April to September 1528, when he was in Awadh, are missing.
They were the main written evidence for when and by whom the mosque at the Janmabhoomi was raised, and were weighed by the courts in the Ayodhya title suits.
InscriptionA treaty between the Hittite king Suppiluliuma I and Shattiwaza, prince of Mitanni in north Syria, sworn before the gods of both kingdoms. Among the Mitanni gods stand four names any Vedic priest would know.
InscriptionThe Persian king Darius I tells, in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian, how he took the throne and which lands obeyed him. Gandhara is on the list.
InscriptionAshoka’s message of dhamma, carved in Greek and Aramaic for the Greek and Persian-speaking subjects at the western edge of his empire.
InscriptionFourteen major rock edicts, minor rock edicts and seven pillar edicts in which the Maurya emperor speaks in his own voice, as Devanampiya Piyadasi.
InscriptionIn conquered Kalinga, Ashoka left out the thirteenth rock edict, which mourns the war, and carved two separate edicts addressed to his officers there instead.
InscriptionA small bronze-copper plate in early Brahmi, issued by the officials of Shravasti, cast with symbols of storehouses above the text.
InscriptionSeventeen lines in Prakrit and Brahmi recording, year by year, the reign of Kharavela, the Jain emperor of Kalinga.
InscriptionA stone Garuda-dhvaja raised to Vasudeva by Heliodorus, a Greek envoy from Takshashila, at the court of King Bhagabhadra.
