[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) › 3.7.7 # Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 3.7.7 Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable) 3.7.7 - **Language:** English ### [3.7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.7.7) Such was the language in which Aureng-Zebe expressed his resentment; but some of the learned men, either wishing to flatter the Monarch and add energy to his speech, or actuated by jealousy of the Mullah, affirm that the King's reproof did not end here, but that, when he had spoken for a short time on indifferent subjects, he resumed his discourse in this strain: 'Were you not aware that it is during the period of infancy, when the memory is commonly so retentive, that the mind may receive a thousand wise precepts, and be easily furnished with such valuable instruction as will elevate it with lofty conceptions, and render the individual capable of glorious deeds? Can we repeat our prayers, or acquire a knowledge of law and of the sciences, only through the medium of Arabic? May not our devotions be offered up as acceptably, and solid information communicated as easily, in our mother tongue? You gave my father, Chah-Jekan, to understand that you instructed me in philosophy; and, indeed, I have a perfect remembrance of your having, during several years, harassed and human experience in the poems of Homer, more complete in every detail than is elsewhere furnished to us of Achaian life. (The right hon. gentleman resumed his seat amid hearty cheers.) - [Previous: 3.7.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.7.6) - [Next: 3.7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.7.8) - [Up: 3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.3.7.7) · Pramāṇa