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18th slit window, up stairway soffit of a window lintel has an inscription "Srigovindapali Bhojapali"; epigraphic style suggests this being 9th century
1199 ce - [Basement] 1st face on the right side of the main entrance, left jamb of main entrance door, 4th course and On underside of lowest overlapping arch stone in entrance passage : "Samat 1256" inscribed 3 times
XXX ce -
- [Basement] On right jamb of main entrance door, 8th course:
"Stambho" (The Pillar)
- [Basement] On the south face of the plinth: "...Ma gaj 51 1/2 / 83 1/4 daranamuni"
- [4th storey] On left abutment of door:
"Sri Sultrāna Alavadin Vijayastambha"
(The Victory Pillar of the glorious monarch Ala-ud-din [Khilji])
- [Basement] On left jamb of main entrance door, 9th course
"pirthinirapah" "The King Pirthi"
- [Basement] On left jamb of the 5th slit window up stair-way:
"Malikdin-ki-kirti-stambha" "Svasti Bhavatu" "Malakdin" "Malakdin"
- [4th storey] On the fifth course above the floor of the balcony:
"Mason Lashmana (and) Harimani Gaveri, son of Sahadhair"
1326 ce - [4th storey] On the right hand side of door, 8th course:
"Muhammad Sultrāna ki rāji Bhādava māsi biju padi sātami-dine ghatika 25 janakamatrah Samvat 1382 Varshe" - Lightening strike
1332 ce [4th storey] On right abutment of door:
"Оm Samat 1389 varshe Chaitra-sudi 11 Budha-dine Sri Sultrāna Mahammadsahi ki Kirti"
1368 ce - [4th storey] On the right side of the door, 8th course:
"Samat 1425 varshe Phalgun vadi 15 gurudine Pherojsahi ke raji biju padi. Vahudi usrayo. Sutra Nana Salha Lola Lashmana...Samat 1425" - Lightening strike
1367 ce - [5th storey] On left hand marble abutment of the door:
"Om svasti Sri Sultrāna Pherojsahi vijayaraje Samvat 1426 varshe Phalguna sudi 5 Sukra dine Munaro jirnodhara Krit Sri Visvakarma prasade rachitah Sutradhari Chahada-Devapalasuta-dohitra sutrapatah pratishtha nipati...silpi sūtra Nānā Salhā darukarmma Dharmu-Vanāni" Repair of 5th storey
1503 ce
- [2nd storey] On right abutment of door, near iron fixing:
"Written by Visnu Kantha on the 2nd day of the bright fortnight of Chaitra in the year Samvat 1560 (1503 ce)"
- [5th storey] On the marble soffit of arch over doorway:
"On the 8th day of the bright fortnight of Bhadra in the year Samvat 1560 (AD 1503)"
1542 ce -
- [3rd storey] On right jamb of the door:
"Gopa Gopa....in the Samvat year 1599"
- [3rd storey] On the face of the 8th angle on the left side of the door:
"Written in the year Samvat 1599 (by) the stone-cutter Sisa, son of Hira"
1560 ce - [3rd storey] On left abutment of door: "On the 6th Magha of the year Samvat 1617"
1648 ce - [2nd storey] On the white granite slab on top of the first storey:
"In the Samat year 1704 (on the 9th day of the dark fortnight of the month Maha (Magha). Tulsi and Hira Devidas....Madholal....Badrgu....the stone-cutters of the chandalavamsa...Ram.
1775 ce. [Basement] On right jamb of the 5th slit window up stair-way:
"Chunilal fixed this screen in Samvat 1832. Chunilal, dated....."
1878 ce - On the face of the 8th angle on the right side of the door:
"Samvat 1935. The mason Mohana Lala on the 5th of the bright fortnight of Bhadra"
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