Note 3 — CHAPTER 30
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[Cunningham searched in vain for the Sanskrit inscription. “I am inclined to believe that Tod may have mistaken some of the square Cufic writing for ancient Sanskrit. It is, indeed, possible that the square Cufic inscription which records the building of the mosque in A.H. 596 (A.D. 1200) may once have occupied the position described by Tod over the apex of the central arch” (ASR, ii. 262 f.).]