My first most vivid and broad impression impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained gain on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening .

Partly from its peculiar colour , partly from a superstition which represented it as feeling the influence of the deity whom it adorned , and growing and lessening in lustre with the waxing and waning of the moon , it first gained gain the name by which it continues to be known in India to this day -- the name of THE MOONSTONE .