The Chanderi Inscription of ʽAlāʼ al-Dīn Khaljī is an epigraphic record in four lines, written in Naskh script in the Persian language.
It records the completion of a mosque during the governorship of Amīr al-Umarā', Ikhtiyār al-Dawla wa al-Dīn Tamur Sulṭānī by Ismā‘īl, son of ‘Abd al-Salām, entitled Wajīh-i Najīb, the muḥarrir of the district (khiṭṭa) of Kol (Aligarh) during the reign of ‘Alā' al-Dunyā wa al-Dīn Abu al-Muẓaffar Muḥammad Shāh (i.e. ‘Alā' al-Dīn Khaljī, popularly known as Alauddin Khalji, d. 1316 AD).
The inscription was first mentioned in 1924-25 by M. B. Garde in the annual reports of the Gwalior State archaeological department.
[4] An edition appeared in the 1968 volume of Epigraphia Indica, Persian and Arabic Supplement.
[6] The inscription, lost for a number of years, was located by Muzaffar Ansari who donated it to the Archaeological Museum, Chanderi, where it is registered under the number AMC 97/98.