[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) › 9.1.5 # Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 9.1.5 Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable) 9.1.5 - **Language:** English ### [9.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.1.5) The first and largest tent erected in the royal camp is named Am-kas; being the place where the King and all the nobility keep the mokam; that is, where they assemble at nine o'clock in the morning for the purpose of deliberating on affairs of state and of administering justice. The Kings of Hindoustan seldom fail, even when in the field, to hold this assembly twice during the twenty-four hours, the same as when in the capital. The custom is regarded as a matter of law and duty, and the observance of it is rarely neglected. The second tent, little inferior in size and somewhat further within the enclosure, is called the gosle-kane, or the place for bathing. It is here that all the nobility meet every evening to pay their obeisance to the King, in the same manner as when the court is at Dehli. This evening assembly subjects the Omrahs to much inconvenience; but it is a grand and imposing spectacle in a dark night to behold, when standing at some distance, long rows of torches lighting these Nobles, through extended lanes of tents, to the gosle-kane, and attending them back again to their own quarters. These flambeaux, although not made of wax, like ours in France, burn a long time. They merely consist of a piece of iron hafted in a stick, and surrounded at the extremity with linen rags steeped in oil, which are renewed, as occasion requires, by the masalchis, or link boys, who carry the oil in long narrow-necked vessels of iron or brass. - [Previous: 9.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.1.4) - [Next: 9.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.1.6) - [Up: 9.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.1.5) · Pramāṇa