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Panel, Kethora village, 1325, Epigraphic Round Script
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Saarthak Singh, . (n.d.). Panel, Kethora village, 1325, Epigraphic Round Script (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4110
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Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- India_SS_06
- Author
- Saarthak Singh
- Date
- 4 Jumada II, 725 H.
- May 18, 1325
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- India, Madhya Pradesh, Damoh district, Hatta tehsil, Kethora village
- Present Location
- Built into a ruined well outside the village
- Language
- Persian
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Nature of the Text
- Other
- Text Content
- Records the construction of a step-well in the reign of Sultan Ghiyāth al-Dīn Tughluq, governorship of Amīr al-Umarā Juljīn and deputyship of Jalāl al-Dīn Ahsān Husainī by Jalāl b. Ishāq b. Uthmān Ghaznavī.
- Script
- Epigraphic Round Script
- Signature
- Zāhid b. Mas’ūd Sūfī
- Signature Role
- calligrapher
- Remarks (General Identification)
- Bilingual inscription with 6 lines of Persian in naskh followed by 4 lines of Sanskrit in nagari
- Type of Object
- architectural element\panel
- Writing Surface
- stone\type of stone\sandstone
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 6
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
- Bibliography
- Desai, Ziauddin Abdul Hayy. “A Bilingual Tughluq Inscription from Damoh District, Madhya Pradesh.” In Kusumāñjalī: New Interpretation of Indian Art & Culture: Sh. C. Sivaramamurti Commemoration Volume, edited by M. S. Nagaraja Rao. Agam Kala Prakashan, 1987. : 431-436.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Line of Writing
- broken
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- oblique
- Presence of Elongation
- absent
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - vertical
- alif - non serifed
- alif - shaft tapers from thick to thin
- alif - foot with left hook
- Lām Ascenders
- lām - vertical
- lām - inclined to left
- lām - non serifed
- lām - shaft tapers from thick to thin
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - short curvilinear tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- deep bowl
- final lām straight horizontal bowl below baseline
- jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders
- opening downwards
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward oblique stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - deep plunging bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- medial zig-zag denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- medial bottom open loop and top closed loop
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
vocalization and diacritics
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics
- diagonal tail (40°-45°)
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small inverse Z
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles