Meaning of Great Mogul | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A Mughal emperor.
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2. The Great Mogul diamond, a gem once belonging to the Mughal emperors.

Examples

“And then if the Pretender, nay if the Great Mogul, or any other Man (however averse they may be at present) did offer his Service to them for recovering their prissine State, they would, I am afraid, too readily comply to accept thereof, when chagrin’d, and fretted, and combin’d for that purpose.”

“This first of the Great Moguls is vaunted as the most accomplished prince that ever ruled over Hindostan; yet, as has been justly remarked, we nowhere see him in the edifying picture of a monarch devoting himself in peace to the improvement of his country and the happiness of his people.”

“Was the pronouncement of the judicial committee no more relevant to the church than a pronouncement by the Great Mogul, with the important exception that it possessed the tyrannical power of enforcing its orders against the church?”

“In 1739, the Persian conqueror Nadir Shah sacked Delhi and returned home with chests filled with gold, silver, emeralds, diamonds and pearls from the Great Mogul’s treasury.”

“All we know of the Great Mogul is derived from Bernier and Tavernier. Whether after the latter had seen it, it was broken up, lost, or hidden away never to be rediscovered, we cannot say […]”

“The Persians are believed to have acquired the stone after Nadir Shah looted Delhi in 1739. The Great Mogul has disappeared since that time.”

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