[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) › 9.1.8 # Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 9.1.8 Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable) 9.1.8 - **Language:** English ### [9.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.1.8) In each of the two tents wherein the King and nobility meet for deliberation is erected a stage, which is most sumptuously adorned, and the King gives audience under a spacious canopy of velvet or flowered silk. The other tents have similar canopies, and they also contain what are called karguais or cabinets, the little doors of which are secured with silver padlocks. You may form some idea of them by picturing to yourself two small squares of our folding screens, the one placed on the other, and both tied round with a silken cord in such a manner that the extremities of the sides of the upper square incline towards each other so as to form a kind of dome. There is this difference, however, between the karguais and our screens, that all their sides are composed of very thin and light deal boards painted and gilt on the outside, and embellished around with gold and silk fringe. The inside is lined with scarlet, flowered satin, or brocade. I believe that I have omitted nothing of consequence contained within the great square. In describing what is to be seen without, I shall first notice two handsome tents on either side of the grand entrance, or royal gate. Here is to be seen a small number of the choicest horses, saddled and superbly caparisoned, ready to be mounted upon any emergency, but intended rather for ceremony and parade. - [Previous: 9.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.1.7) - [Next: 9.1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.1.9) - [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.9.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.1.8) · Pramāṇa