With carved jade hilt and watered-steel blade
11 5/8 ins. (29.7 cm.) long; hilt 4 3/8 ins. (11.1 cm.) long
Shah Jahan’s regnal name is divided into various parts. Shihab ud-Din mean "Star of the Faith", Sahib al-Quiran ud-Thani means "Second Lord of the Happy Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus". Shah Jahan means "King of the World", alluding to his pride in his Timurid roots and his ambitions. More epithets showed his secular and religious duties. He was also Khalifat Panahi ("Refuge of the Caliphate"), but Zill-i Allahi, or the "Shadow of God on Earth"
You can read صاحب قران ثانى (Second Lord of the Happy Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus) written at the base of the blade. Sold for USD 3,375,000.
Courtesy: Christie’s, London.
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