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in the Portuguese conquest. and I doubt not there must exist 
many more. One of them belonging to the year 1502 has been 
quoted from Faria y Sousa at p.5, note 2. The other belongs to 
the year 1604. At Diu there were two famous pagodas: one 
sacred to ‘‘ Mahesse,’’ the other to ‘‘Crangane.’’ ‘‘ On that 
mountain stood formerly the Pagode of Crangane, of which we 
spoke above; but, from the time that the Portuguese became 
But, a Portuguese soldier having discovered it plucked out 
We have similar accounts in early Moslem authors. 
Alberuni, Ebn Haukal and Ectakhry describe an idol at Multan 
which was entirely covered by a skin resembling the skin of a 
red antelope, so that only its eyes could be seen. The eyes con- 
sisted of ‘‘ two precious stones ’’ (Ebn Haukal and Ectakhry), 
of ‘‘two rubies’’ according to Alberuni.2 Idols in Nepal 
have often large cowries inserted in the eyes, with a black 
stone in the centre to imitate the pupil. It is still an Indian 
custom, too, to make images consisting entirely of precious 
stones. 
V. Ball has a theory of his own concerning the Pitt 
Diamond which, for the sake of completeness, we must quote 
here. (Cf. Tavernier’s Travels, 11, 435). 
‘*No attention,’’ he writes, ‘‘ has hitherto been given b 
Nothing of its subsequent history is known, but it cannot have 
been the one presented by Mir Jumla to Shah Jahan {about 
1656)}.° It may, however, have been the Pitt Diamond, which, 
when offered to Pitt in 1701, weighed 426 carats; but if so, it 

_ 1? Cf. pu Jarric, 8.J., Histoire des choses plus memorables : : vieg LER, 
Livre V., Ch. 30, pp. 214—21, in particular p. 220 ; or FeErNaM GUERREIRO, 
8.J.. Relagam Annal das Cousas .... de 606 and 607 .... Lisboa, 1609, 
oe 

EHATSEK, Harly Moslem accounts of the Hindu Religion, in 
pp. 39-41 
Tavernier, IT, 433. In connection with the Indian prac- 
@ jewels on temples, it is worth noting that 
Cf. V. Bat, op. cit., II, 446, 
