Those who oppose the claim about the existence of a Rama temple at the Babri mosque site point out that the verse does not talk about the construction of a Rama temple. Historian Irfan Habib notes that the inscription begins with an invocation to Shiva: Based on this, Habib concludes that the temple mentioned in the inscription was a Shiva temple. Historian Ram Sharan Sharma, who dismisses the Vishnu-Hari inscription as a 17th-century inscription, argues that the name Vishnu-Hari does not appear in the text Vishnu sahasranama, which lists a thousand names of Vishnu.