 | François Bernier - India - 1826 - 366 pages
...from his neck, reached to the stomach, in the same manner as many pagans wear their strings of beads. The throne was supported by six massy feet, said to...sprinkled over with rubies, emeralds, and diamonds. 1 cannot tell you with accuracy the number or value of this vast collection of precious stones, because... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Africa - 1828 - 400 pages
...immense pearls reached to the stomach, in the same manner as many pagans wear their strings of beads. The throne was supported by six massy feet, said to...sprinkled over with rubies, emeralds, and diamonds. The throne, to the best of my recollection, is valued at four crores (forty millions) of rupees. It... | |
 | William Ford - India - 1887 - 288 pages
...reached to the stomach. The throne was supported by six massy feet, said •See Berniet's Travels, to be of solid gold, sprinkled over with rubies, emeralds, and diamonds, and was valued at 40,000,000 rupees." But we must not keep Sir John waiting, whilst we are recalling... | |
 | Stanley Lane-Poole - India - 1893 - 248 pages
...a lustre like the sun. A necklace of immense pearls suspended from his neck reached to the stomach. The throne was supported by six massy feet, said to...sprinkled over with rubies, emeralds, and diamonds. It was constructed by ShahJahan for the purpose of displaying the immense quantity of precious stones... | |
 | English literature - 1893 - 608 pages
...a lustre like the sun. A necklace of immense pearls suspended from his neck reached to the stomach. The throne was supported by six massy feet, said to...sprinkled over with rubies, emeralds, and diamonds. It was constructed by Shah-Jahan for tho purpose of displaying the immense quantity of precious stones... | |
 | Stanley Lane-Poole - India - 1896 - 230 pages
...a lustre like the sun. A necklace of immense pearls suspended from his neck reached to the stomach. The throne was supported by six massy feet, said to...sprinkled over with rubies, emeralds, and diamonds. It was constructed by ShahJahan for the purpose of displaying the immense quantity of precious stones... | |
 | Stanley Lane-Poole - India - 1903 - 480 pages
...a lustre like the sun. A necklace of immense pearls suspended from his neck reached to the stomach. The throne was supported by six massy feet, said to...sprinkled over with rubies, emeralds, and diamonds. It was constructed by Shah-Jahan for the purpose of displaying the immense quantity of precious stones... | |
 | Political Science - 1997 - 454 pages
...A visitor to the Mogul court of Aurangzeb describes his elaborate clothing and jewelry and goes on: "The throne was supported by six massy feet, said...sprinkled over with rubies, emeralds, and diamonds. It was constructed by ShahJehan for the purpose of displaying the immense quantity of precious stones... | |
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The turban of gold cloth had an aigrette whose base was composed of diamonds of an extraordinary size and value, besides an oriental topaz which may be pronounced unparalleled, exhibiting a lustre like the sun. A necklace of immense pearls suspended from... 