Indian Epigraphy c7.s3.1

c7.s3.1

The majority of Indo-Muslim inscriptions are written in Persian. Many of them are in Arabic and some partly in Arabic and partly in Persian. There is another kind of bilingual records which are written in Arabic or Persian on the one hand and Sanskrit or a regional language like Marāṭhī, Kannaḍa or Telugu on the other.² Inscriptions in more languages than wo are also known.¹