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  1. Persian `mountain of light'. a fabulous
  2. diamond, originally part of the Aurangzeb
  3. treasure, seized in 1739 by the shah of Iran
  4. from the Moguls in India, taken back by
  5. Sikhs, and acquired by Britain in 1849 when
  6. the Punjab was annexed.
  7.