[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) › 5.2.7 # Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 5.2.7 Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable) 5.2.7 - **Language:** English ### [5.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.5.2.7) This is a pretty fair description of a fine house in these parts, and as there are many in Dehli possessing all the properties above mentioned, I think it may be safely asserted, without disparagement to the towns in our quarter of the globe, that the capital of Hindoustan is not destitute of handsome buildings, although they bear no resemblance to those in Europe. That which so much contributes to the beauty of European towns, the brilliant appearance of the shops, is wanting in Dehli. For though this city be the seat of a powerful and magnificent court, where an infinite quantity of the richest commodities is necessarily collected, yet there are no streets like ours of S. Denis, which has not perhaps its equal in any part of Asia. Here the costly merchandise is generally kept in warehouses, and the shops are seldom decked with rich or showy articles. For one that makes a display of beautiful and fine cloths, silk, and other stuffs striped with gold and silver, turbans embroidered with gold, and brocades, there are at least five-and-twenty where nothing is seen but pots of oil or butter, piles of baskets filled with rice, barley, chick-peas, wheat, and an endless variety of other grain and pulse, the ordinary aliment not only of the Gentiles, who never eat meat, but of the lower class of Mahometans, and a considerable portion of the military. - [Previous: 5.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.5.2.6) - [Next: 5.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.5.2.8) - [Up: 5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.5.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.5.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.5.2.7) · Pramāṇa