[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) › 14.1.3 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 14.1.3 Travels in India (Ball) 14.1.3 - **Language:** English ### [14.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.14.1.3) The father and mother, startled by this occurrence, and having lost their wits, let the pot go, which the river carried away, and they remained some time half dead at the foot of the tree. About two leagues lower down a Banian and his wife, with a little child, were washing themselves in the river before going to take their meal. They beheld from afar the pot upon the water, and half the head of a child, which appeared outside the mouth. The Banian immediately went to rescue it, and having reached it, pushed it ashore. The woman, followed by her child, came presently to take the other which was in the pot, in order to withdraw it. And at the same moment the snake, which had done no injury to the first child, left the pot, and entwined itself about the body of the other child which was close to its mother, bit it, and injected its poison, which caused its immediate death. - [Previous: 14.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.14.1.2) - [Next: 14.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.14.1.4) - [Up: 14.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.14.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.14.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.14.1.3) · Pramāṇa