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Ch. 5: The Great Mogul Diamond

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76 THE GREAT DIAMONDS OF THE WORLD.
jewels for herself than to please her brother."* It has accordingly been asked how the Great Mogul came into Aurung-zeb's hands before his father's death ; for we have seen that he exhibited it to Tavernier in November, 1665. But Tavernier nowhere says that Shah Jehan retained all his gems, and he even adds that although when mounting the throne Aurung-zeb had only one jewel in his diadem, had he wished to have others placed in it, there was no lack of
them.....having asked his father for his
gems only for the purpose of never returning them to him. Besides there was a good reason why the Great Mogul should have fallen into Aurung-zeb's hands at the time of his father's imprisonment. It was presented by Emir Jemla to Shah Jehan certainly not earlier than 1655, or about two years before his
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