The Mehraab — the arched niche at the heart of a Mughal monument — has long been one of the most beautiful shapes in Indian decorative tradition: wider at the base, flat at the top, curving inward with quiet authority. The Shiromani Mehraab Jadau Gold Plated Maangtikka translates that form into a pendant that sits at the forehead like a small, gilded monument. Its flat-top teardrop body is worked in jadau gold plating with ruby pink and emerald green stones set in horizontal rows across its surface — echoing the layered ornamentation of a real mehraab — with a base of trailing ruby and emerald bead drops and pearls. Suspended from a delicate pearl-strung chain hooking at the hair parting, it has the visual weight of a heritage piece without the literal weight of one, at 5cm across and 14cm total length. Wear it with a heavily embroidered sherwani-cut kurta in ivory or ecru for a look that reads Mughal-court in the most considered way; pair it with a georgette saree in deep ruby red or hunter green, where the Mehraab’s layered stonework echoes the colour of the drape beneath it; or let it sit against a chanderi silk suit in soft gold or antique yellow, where the arch form reads like calligraphy against a manuscript page.