Pillar, Chanderi, 1470, Epigraphic Round Script

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License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Entry ID: India_SS_34
Author: Saarthak Singh
Date: 875 H.; 1470
Localization Exactitude Degree: Exact
Place of Production: India, Madhya Pradesh, Ashoknagar district, Chanderi
Present Location: ASI Museum, Chanderi
Language: Persian; Sanskrit
Type of text: Legal/administrative texts
Text Content: Records the abolition of annual jizya tax paid by residents, tribes and herdsmen by the governor Sher Khān
Script: Epigraphic Round Script
Signature: Maulānā Fażlullāh b. Muḥammad Niẓām Kalpawī
Signature Role: calligrapher
Type of Object: architectural element\free-standing pillar
Writing Surface: stone\type of stone\granite
Shape (Epigraphy): rectangular
Layout (Epigraphy & Objects): 20 + 21
Technique: incised
Instrument: chisel

See the lexicon

wāw descenders: wāw - short curvilinear tail
rā' zā' descenders: rā'/zā' - s-shaped
nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders: Short bowl on baseline
jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders: closed looped tail; backward partial tail
yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders: backward oblique stroke

bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals: bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - deep plunging bowl

sīn shīn denticles: short pointed denticles
initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles: initial perpendicular to baseline

hā' counters: isolated one-eyed round (mu'arrāh); initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr); final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
fā' qāf wāw counters: rounded head
medial 'ain ghayn counters: wide inverted triangle
mīm counters: rounded head