An inscribed panel is often placed in a mosque to record its patron and date of construction. Here, the inscription has been completed in a style unique to northeastern India, in which the vertical letters of some words are shot through with the bowlike configuration of other words, but the contents are typical. The overlapping letters include a saying of the Prophet Muhammad, promising a palace in Paradise to anyone who builds a mosque on earth, and the name of Daniyal, son of Sultan Husain Shah of Bengal (r. 1493–1518), who paid for the mosque to be built.
