Three Mughal period documents — Baburnama, Ain-I-Akbari and Early Travel to India — were among the 18 crucial historic documents examined by the Allahabad high court in the Ayodhya title suit and all of them have been annexed with the verdict as part of it.
What did Baburnama, Ain-I-Akbari and the early travelogue to Ayodhya (recorded between 1583 and 1619) by several Muslim scholars say, make an interesting reading about the building of the “Babri Mosjid” and overall picture of the city, considered pious by the Hindus.
Baburnama, the memoirs of Zahiru’d-Din Muhammad Babur Padshah Ghazi, who established Mughal rule in India, in two volumes as translated by Annette Susannaneh Beveridge says “by the command of Emperor Babur, whose justice is an edifice reaching up to the very height of the heavens, the good hearted Mir Baqi built this alighting-place of angels (Babri Masjid). The year of building it was made clear likewise Buvad Khaair Baqu (=935).”
The quotation is the translated version of two inscriptions, which were mentioned inside the mosque, demolished on December 6, 1992.
According to the translated version of the Baburnama, the Hijri year 935, referred in the inscription, begins on September 15, 1528. However, the crucial pages of Baburnama — the narrative of the period between April 2 to September 18, 1528 — when Babur travelled the area for hunting and also oversee the governing of the area under Mir Baqi, had been found missing from the original memoirs itself according to Beveridge.
In the explanation to the first couplet, Beveridge says “it is praising Emperor Babur under whose orders the mosque was erected.”
Ain-I-Akbari, the memoirs of Babur’s grandson Akbar, says “Awadh (Ayodhya) is one of the largest cities of India.