File:16th century Alauddin Husain Shah inscription of Bengal from Tribeni.jpg

English: This early 16th-century inscription was originally located at a different mosque in Tribeni area, was moved in the 19th-century to the Zafar Khan Ghazi Dargah in Tribeni (West Bengal), to the west of the Hoogly river. When found by British colonial era historians and epigraphists, it was on the west wall of the northern niche, to the right of the central mihrab in the mosque.

• It is dated to 912 AH (c. 1506 CE) and mentions Sultan Alauddin Husain Shah.
• Blochmann was the first to note the inscription's significance and to publish it, along with the report that it was relocated to the Dargah from a nearby Tribeni mosque ruins. However, the date and Sultan was misidentified by Blochmann. This was corrected by epigraphist Ghulam Yazdani.
• The inscription is carved on an arch shaped black basalt tablet. Its ink-impression (estampage) was published in 1906 and again in 1915–1916 issue of the Epigraphia Indo-Moslemica.
• The first three lines of the inscription quote the Quran, and are in larger line widths than the rest.
• The language is Arabic-Persian mix, but with some grammatical and spelling mistakes, according to Yazdani.
• After quoting the Quran and praising those who build mosques, the hagiographic inscription states "this assembly mosque was built by the Lord of the sword and the pen, the hero of the age and the time". It adds the wish that "may God prolong his life to eternity, and lengthen his government over mankind, and may God perpetuate his gifts to Muslims, and grant him victory over the infidels to proclaim the true faith."
• This inscription is one of two found in the Dargah, both inscribed on the same basalt material and by the same scribe. The second inscription explicitly mentions the complete name of Alauddin Husain Shah and the date 912 AH.
• The complete translation of the two inscriptions can be found in Epigraphia Indo-Moslemica 1915–1916 (pp. 10–14).

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