A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c22.s1.16
A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c22.s1.16
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c22.s1.16
H. de Montfart, who travelled in India in 1608, saw a very large diamond in the possession of the Mogul emperor Jahângîr at Delhi,¹ but this had been pierced. “I have seene one with the great *Mogor* as bigge as a Hen’s egge, and of that very forme, which he caused expressly to bee pierced like a pearle to weare it on his arme. . . . It weighteth 198 Mangelins.”