‘jewel fell into the hands of the Emperors of the Ghoree dynasty, and from then successively of the Tughluq–Syed and the Lodhi dynasties, and eventually descended to the family of Timur [the Mughals] and remained in their possession until the reign of Mohammud Shah, who wore it in his Turban’. Then, when the Mughal Empire crumbled under the invasion of the Persian warlord Nader Shah, ‘the Emperor and he exchanged Turbans, and thus it became the property of the latter’.
