Rokh was persuaded to give up what was left of his inheritance, the great diamond Taj-e-Mah amongst the rest.
But to Aga Mohammed the stone brought no luck, for he was assassinated.
A
stone which is famous for having belonged to Shah Jehan, the builder of
the Taj Mahal, to whom it came from Akbar Shah, is called the "Akbar
Shah". It is noteworthy for having engraved upon both sides an
inscription by which two Moguls hoped to have their names commemorated
for ever. The fact that the art of engraving thus appears to have been
known at the time might seem to invalidate my argument, in an earlier
chapter, against the "diamond" in the High Priest's breastplate. But
the method by which these names were written on the stones was not
perhaps true engraving in the technical sense, but done with worms—the
juice of certain worms having a unique action upon the incorruptible
diamond, or so it was claimed.
Akbar Shah himself had the first writing put upon the diamond:
"Shah Akbar
The Shah of the World
1028 AH."
When it came into the possession of Shah Jehan, he had set upon it these words:
"To the Lord of Two Worlds
1039 A.H.
Shah Jehan."
