Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c14.s12.1

c14.s12.1

| Location | In the Jumʻa Masjid, Burhānpūr, Nimar Dist., MP |
| Script | Devanāgarī |
| Language | Sanskrit (verse and prose) |
| Meters | *Anuṣṭubh* (vv. 1–2); *upajāti* (3–4); *śārdūlavikrīḍita* (5) |
| Type and format | Donative stone inscription; written in raised letters, in the Islamic fashion, rather than incised as in most Indic inscriptions |
| Purpose | Records the construction of the Mosque by Ādil Shāh |
| Date | [Vikrama] Saṃvat 1646/Śāka 1511, cyclical year Virodhin, eleventh day (*tithi*) of the bright half of Pauṣa, Monday, = January 5, A.D. 1590 |
| Reference | Hira Lal, “Burhanpur Sanskrit Inscription of Adil Shah. Samvat 1646,” EI 9, 1907–8, 306–10. |