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The diamond...The Mountain of Light...and its source.
We're back in the times when the Gods mingled with men. The daughter
of a poor elephant keeper is playing on the banks of the Yumana, a
sacred river of India. Among the reeds, she discovers a child clothed
in golden armor. On his forehead, the child bears a dazzling stone of
light. When it's discovered that this child is Karna, son of Surya, the
sun god, he is admitted to court and raised with the reigning king's
son. Time passes, the king ages, and a dynastic conflict arises between
the legitimate heirs to the throne and their cousins, the Pandavas.
Well, as you all know, royal squabbles soon degenerate into out and out
war. Killing abounds. As Lewis Carrol might have said, their vorpal
blades went snicker-snackering all over the place. Young Karna, he's
older now, he's fearless, and he has this delusion that the diamond on
his forehead has made him invincible. So he challenges Arjuna, one of
the Pandavas and a pretty tough guy himself, to face-to-face combat.
Krishna, one of the divine presences of the day, tips the scales of
destiny in favor of the Pandavas group, Karna dies, and "the stone of
light" rolls into the dust.
Soon after, a young woman discovers the diamond and brings it to
Thanesar, the nearest village, where it's affixed in the middle of the
forehead of the statue of the god Siva.
For centuries, The Mounain of Light--more familiarly known as the
Koh-i-Noor diamond--Siva's third eye, is jealously guarded by its
priests. Stories abound around the Koh-i-Noor:
It is said that he who possesses the Koh-i-Noor will possess the world.
But he will also possess the worst misfortune. Only a god or a woman,
it is said, can wear it safely. How lucky for the gods, and womankind.
What I want to know is: Who writes these rules? Huh?