[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Histoire de la dernière révolution des États du Grand Mogol](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier) › [Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable) › 3.6.1 # Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 3.6.1 Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable) 3.6.1 - **Language:** English ### [3.6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.6.1) When Aureng-Zebe had received the different embassies I have described, news at length reached the court that one from Persia had arrived on the frontier. The Persian Omrahs, and others of that nation, in the service of the Mogol, spread a report that affairs of the utmost moment brought the ambassador to Hindoustan. Intelligent persons, however, gave no credence to the rumour: the period for great events was gone by, and it was clear that the Persians had no other reason for saying their countryman was intrusted with an important commission, than a vain and overweening desire to exalt their nation. It was also pretended by the same individuals, that the Omrah appointed to meet the ambassador on the frontier, and to provide for his honourable treatment during his journey to the capital, was strictly enjoined to spare no pains to discover the principal object of the embassy. He was instructed, they said, to prepare, by degrees, the haughty Persian for the ceremony of the Salam, which was to be represented, as well as that of delivering all letters through the medium of a third person, as a custom that has invariably obtained from time immemorial. It is sufficiently evident, however, from what we witnessed, that these were idle tales, and that Aureng-Zebe is raised much above the necessity of recurring to such expedients. On his entry into the capital, the ambassador was received with every demonstration of respect. - [Previous: 3.5.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.5.10) - [Next: 3.6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.6.2) - [Up: 3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.6.1) · Pramāṇa