[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) › 3.6.7 # Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 3.6.7 Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable) 3.6.7 - **Language:** English ### [3.6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.6.7) When Chah-Jehan had made several fruitless attempts to subdue the arrogance of the ambassador, whom no arguments or caresses could induce to salute the Great Mogol according to the Indian mode, he devised this artifice to gain his end. He commanded that the grand entrance of the court leading to the Am-Kas, where he intended to receive the ambassador, should be closed, and the wicket only left open; a wicket so low that a man could not pass through without stooping, and holding down the head as is customary in doing reverence à l'indien. Chah-Jehan hoped by this expedient to have it in his power to say that the ambassador, in approaching the royal presence, bowed the head even nearer to the ground than is usual in his court; but the proud and quick-sighted Persian, penetrating into the Mogol's design, entered the wicket with his back turned toward the King. Chah-Jehan, vexed to see himself overcome by the ambassador's stratagem, said indignantly, 'Eh-bed-bakt (Ah, wretch!) didst thou imagine thou wast entering a stable of asses like thyself?' 'I did imagine it,' was the answer. 'Who, on going through such a door, can believe he is visiting any but asses?' - [Previous: 3.6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.6.6) - [Next: 3.7.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.7.1) - [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.3.6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.6.7) · Pramāṇa