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“That diamond is having a very important family. From the Golconda mines in Kollur, come such purest of all diamonds - as they lack the element that would corrupt them.

Its history begins many, many, hundreds of years past, in the household of Babur - relation to the greatest Khan, Genghis . Named the ‘Great Mogul’ after the Mogul Emperor Shah Jehan ...the same such who built the Taj Mahal....it was split into two of the world’s most powerful diamonds.

Whomever owned one, was foretold to rule the world; and it resided in the infamous peacock throne until Jehan’s son, Aurangzeb , stole all from his father and began the quick decline of the Mogul Emperors. Also then, Jean Baptiste Tavernier , the same cursed French jewel thief who purloined the Great Blue for the French Emperor, purposely created confusion by poorly identifying this part as the whole - while pretending to elucidate. Falling then into the hands of Nadar Shah, the King of Persia, it was dubbed the ‘Koh-I-Noor’ - ‘Mountain of Light,’ in Urdu tongue - and, eventually, demanded by Victoria, Queen of England.

The second part of the ‘Great Mogul’ remained the powerful eye of Deity in holy Brahmin Temple in Mahishuru - until stolen by a French sailor, and later given to the Empress Catherine The Great , as the Orlov Both diamonds shine today, as the stars of the British and Romanov Crown Jewels; and, profited none, as they worked their way to preeminence - such is their power.

Thus, the rape of ancient India is illustrated; providing yet another example of the perpetuation of Samsara. Unbridled thirst for wealth, power and supremacy always results in the squandering of all, and spiritual desolation. Will my people never learn the debt of bad Karma? Are other peoples destined to succumb to the same tortured fate of mother India? Sad is the thought...”

-Lamentations of a Hindu Brahman

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