MAHARAJA GAEKWAD KHANDERAO GAEKWAD SHAMSHER BAHADUR.

He was married to Maharani Jamna Bai Sahiba. She was born in 1853 and died on 29.11.1898. Shri Maharaja Gaekwad Khanderao was born in 1828, Married in 1866 and died on 28.11.1870.

Baroda Treasury

Indian tradition had several of the rulers of the dynasty on a frenzy of jewelry purchases. Khande Rao purchased the large Brazilian diamond named the Star of the South. The prince was so enthused, that he staged a massive celebration to welcome his new acquisition that included a parade of his elephants weighed in their finest gilded arrays. He had four large carpets made of precious and semi-precious gems to serve as a canopy for the prophet’s tomb in Medina. They were referred to as pearl carpets, but they included diamonds, rubies, emeralds and turquoise that were sewn onto silk. Four gold posts were to be manufactured to serve as support for the canopy. But the posts were unfinished when the maharajah died. His successors didn’t share his enthusiasm for the project and the carpets remained in the treasury. On 20 March 2009 the rug, called Pearl Carpet of Baroda, was auctioned for $5.5m in Doha, Qatar. Khande Rao in a flamboyant display added two solid silver cannons to his armory.[3] Not to be out done, his brother & successor, Malhar Rao, commissioned a pair of solid gold cannons that weighed 280 lb (130 kg) each. He also ordered a pearl carpet be made for a local temple. He was so pleased with the carpet that he kept it for himself.[4] The Gaekwads also possessed the legendary Akbar Shah - a 70-carat (14 g) diamond, rumored to be one of the eyes from the Moguls’ solid-gold Peacock Throne.[5]
One of those successors, Maharaja Sayyaji Rao III, took his guest, the Reverend Weeden, on a tour of the stately treasury underneath the Nazar Bagh Palace in 1909. The reverend was impressed by the sheer size and vast amounts of all the silver, gold and jewels. He reported seeing bejeweled vessels and ornamentation crammed into every nook of the guarded vault.

Source :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaekwad