"Destroyed the house of idols… and built a mosque, demolished… infidels… built. (Persian inscription) [The mosque is] “to last as long as the Moon and Sun,” and “those that cause obstruction (to it) will incur the sin of killing cow at Kãši [Varanasi].” (Telugu inscription)."
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Poonamalle, in the Sriperumbudur Taluka of Chingleput District in Tamil Nadu. Persian and Telugu. ca. 1653. Built in the reign of Sultãn ‘Abdullãh Qutb Shãh (AD 1626-1672) of the Qutb Shãhî dynasty of Golconda when Mîr Jumlã was the governor of the Carnatic province. “In the margin of the tablet,” writes the epigraphist, G. Yazdani, “two Persian couplets are carved, the letters of which have been abraded by the effect of weather. The following words, however, can be deciphered: ‘Destroyed the ho
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