Maharaja.Ranjit.Sing.. - Gurmat Veechar

With the Muslim Rulers 27
From this stage, up to the time of Babar, the
history of the great diamond is once more lost in
obscurity. It is very strange that though the
philosophers and the tribal leaders of those times
were fully conversant with the worth and value of
this precious stone of unrivalled brilliance and extraordinary
size, no one took into his head to record its
history. This much alone can be said that it did remain
in the possession of the Sultans of Delhi. Khilji
dynasty was followed by Tughlaks and they in turn
were succeeded by the Syeds. The last king of that
dynasty Ala-ud-Din Syed, who was a pious and Godfearing
man, gave the reins of his kingdom into the
hands of Bahlol Lodhi, Governor of the Punjab, and
himself retired to lead a life of seclusion. The
diamond was not in their possession, as we find that
when Ibrahim Lodhi was defeated at the battle of
Panipat, it was recovered from Agra where it had
been deposited by Raja Vikramaditya of Gwalior.
How did it pass from the hands of the Sultans of
Delhi is not known. There is no record to throw light
on this episode. In fact there are some who believe
that it did not pass into the hands of Tughlaks at all,
because we find sufficiently detailed records of the
times of Mohammed Tughlak and his successors.
a different form,"declare that there is no such thing as a unique
substance, except the Divine Being, yet the Koh-i-Noor diamond
has no peer and stands in a class by itself. (You cannot find a
diamond to match it in the whole world." (translation)