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The Journal of Indian Art and Industry Indian Jewellery Part I

1884

In previous works I have brought fiirward some evidence to show how fashions in dress the regulations of the ceremonials of courts the arrangement of durbars and of processions the conduct of 'oldie business and Many other matters of the kind followed in the provinces the example and practice of the Imperial capital and of its august rulers. [...] the sun rising over the hack of a lima ilf Lad of the sun of Ahltar and of the Suryavansis of whom are the Rajput Princes of Jaipur. [...] The two great epics of India the Mahabharata and the Rämayana or the history of the great war of the family of Bharata an ancient king of India and the history of Rama the deified hero of the Hindus both have numerous references to ornaments worn by both sexes. [...]. In the chief authority of the time the Ain-i-Akbari (the Institutes of the Emperor Akbar) of Shaikh Abulfazl in the third ain of the first book the treasury for precious stones is described. [...] At the point of the top part of the crown was a single pearl of tour mithkals of the value of one lakh of ashrahs; and on different parts of the same were set altogether two hundred rubies of one mithkal each and each of the vAiie of six thousand rupees." The translator of the Memoirs estimates the value this superb symbol of supreme power at two millions and seventy thousand pounds sterling.- l
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