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Ch. 12: The Darya I Nur Diamond

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138 THE GREAT DIAMONDS OF THE WORLD.
gem.* In any case, it seems tolerably certain that the " Darya-i-Nür " was one of the diamonds carried off by Nadir Shah, when he plundered the Delhi treasury in 1739. But if it was never associated with the " Koh-i-Nur," it is now at least fittingly coupled with the "Taj-e-Mah," a gem of scarcely inferior splendour, for both of these superb diamonds figure as the ornaments in a pair of magnificent bracelets, which Sir John Malcolm tells us he saw in Persia, and which were valued at no less than one million sterling.
Some writers have suggested that the " Darya-i-Nür" may possibly be the missing " Great Mogul," of which nothing has been heard since the time it was seen by Tavernier in Aurung-zeb's treasury in 1665. Thus Barbot, amongst others, writes that, " Thamask Kouli-Khan, so famous under the name of Nadir Shah, seems to have got possession of the ' Great Mogul.' If so it may now be in Persia, where it is known by the name of ' Darya-i-Nür,' or ' Ocean of Light.'"
But while it is quite possible, and even probable that Nadir may have seized the " Great Mogul," it does not at all follow that this diamond is now represented by the " Darya-i-Nür." On the contrary, the two stones differ so widely in size and form that they cannot possibly be the same jewel under two different names. The " Great Mogul," as we have seen, was reduced in
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