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  greeneyedgangsta17 августа 2010 г.

  "Here, on a new shrine - in a hall inlaid with precious stones, under a roof supported by pillars of gold - the moon-god was set up and worshipped. Here, on the night when the shrine was completed, Vishnu the Preserver appeared to the three Brahmins in a dream.
  The deity breathed the breath of his divinity on the Diamond in the forehead of the god. And the Brahmins knelt and hid their faces in their robes. The deity commanded that the Moonstone should be watched, from that time forth, by three priests in turn, day and night, to the end of the generation of men. And the Brahmins heard, and bowed before his will. The deity predicted certain disaster to the presumptuous mortal who laid hands on the sacred gem, and to all his house and name who received it after him. And the Brahmins caused the prophecy to be written over the gates of the shrine in letters of gold"
  Книга не оставила равнодушной: яркая и отлично прописанная история-загадка, герои и разные характеры, взаимоотношения, любовь - в этой книге каждый найдет что-то для себя. Коллинз в очередной раз порадовал!
  "There, raised high on a throne - seated oh his typical antelope, with his four arms stretching towards the four corners of the earth - there soared above us, dark and awful in the mystic light of heaven, the god of the Moon. And there, in the forehead of the deity, gleamed the yellow Diamond, whose splendour had last shone on me in England, from the bossom of a woman's dress!"

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