[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) › [Les six voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier) › [Travels in India (Ball)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball) › 129.2.5 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 129.2.5 Travels in India (Ball) 129.2.5 - **Language:** English ### [129.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.129.2.5) Adjoining this great pagoda, on the side which faces the setting sun at midsummer, there is a house which serves as a college, which the Raja Jai Singh, the most powerful of the idolatrous princes, who was then in the Empire of the Great Mogul, has founded for the education of the youth of good families. I saw the children of this Prince, who were being educated there, and had as teachers several Brahmins, who taught them to read and write in a language which is reserved to the priests of the idols, and is very different from that spoken by the people. Having entered the court of this college, being curious to see it, and throwing my eyes upwards, I perceived a double gallery which ran all round it, and in the lower one these two Princes were seated, accompanied by many young nobles and numerous Brahmins, who were making different figures, like those of mathematics, on the ground with chalk. As soon as I entered, these Princes sent to inquire who I was, and having learnt that I was a Frenchman they invited me to ascend, when they asked me many things about Europe, and especially about France. One of the Brahmins had two globes, which the Dutch had given him, and I pointed out the position of France upon them. After some conversation of this kind they presented me with betel; and before I took leave I asked the Brahmins at what hour I should be able to see the pagoda open. - [Previous: 129.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.129.2.4) - [Next: 129.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.129.2.6) - [Up: 129.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.129.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.129.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.129.2.5) · Pramāṇa