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Shah Jahan, famous for building the Taj Mahal in Agra, had the stone placed into his ornate Peacock Throne.

His son, Aurangazeb, imprisoned his ailing father at nearby Agra Fort.

Legend has it that he had the Koh-i-Noor positioned near a window so that Shah Jahan could see the Taj only by looking at its reflection in the stone.

Aurangazeb later brought it to his capital Lahore and placed it in his own personal Badshahi Mosque.

There it stayed until the invasion of Nader Shah of Khorasan in 1739 and the sacking of Agra and Delhi.

Along with the Peacock Throne, he also carried off the Koh-i-Noor to Persia in 1739.

It was allegedly Nader Shah who exclaimed Koh-i-Noor!

when he finally managed to obtain the famous stone, and this is how the stone gained its present name.

There is no reference to this name before 1739.