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| | Maldive Studies: Language and Epigraph |
 | | Bell had seen this back in 1890, and both he and Ahmad Didi, son of Ibrahim, and Abdul Hamid Didi, believed the characters to be pure inventions of Leyden's Maldive source, Hasan-bin-Adam of Hamiti. |
 | | He also thanked M. Husain Didi, Abdul Hamid Didi, Ahmad Didi and his son, A. Muhammad Amin, for revising the translations, for he felt himself 'a pioneer ploughman of a lonely furrow in a fallow field'. |
 | | Bell deduced, with the help of the Chronicles, that it emanated from Muhammad Shuj-ai Imad-ud-din I (A.C. 1620-48) who built the Fort and breakwater at Malé, for on the plate his great-uncle Al Ghazi Ibrahim Farina, who died in A.C.1609 fighting against the Malabars, was named as martyred. |
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