On a recent winter morning in central India's Panna, a diamond mining region, two childhood friends made a discovery that they think could change their lives forever.
Satish Khatik and Sajid Mohammed stumbled upon a large, glistening rock on a plot of land they had leased just weeks earlier.
When they took the stone to the city's official diamond evaluator, they learnt they had found a 15.34-carat gem-quality diamond - one of the finest varieties of natural diamonds that exist.
"The estimated market price of the stone is around five to six million rupees [$55,000 - $66,000; £41,000 - £49,000] and it will be auctioned soon," Anupam Singh, the diamond evaluator, told BBC Hindi.
The government holds quarterly auctions, drawing buyers from across India and abroad to bid for the diamonds.
