[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) › 14.2.5 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 14.2.5 Travels in India (Ball) 14.2.5 - **Language:** English ### [14.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.14.2.5) Arriving at Sidhpur, on one of my journeys, I was encamped under two or three trees at one of the ends of a great open space which is near the town. A short time afterwards I saw four or five lions appearing, which they brought to train, and they told me it generally took five or six months, and they do it in this way. They tie the lions, at twelve paces distance from each other, by their hind feet, to a cord attached to a large wooden post firmly planted in the ground, and they have another about the neck which the lion-master holds in his hand. These posts are planted in a straight line, and upon another parallel one, from fifteen to twenty paces distant, they stretch another cord of the length of the space which the lions occupy, when arranged as above. These two cords which hold the lion fastened by his two hind feet, permit him to rush up to this long cord, which serves as a limit to those outside it, beyond which they ought not to venture to pass when harassing and irritating the lions by throwing small stones or little bits of wood at them. A number of people come to this spectacle, and when the provoked lion jumps towards the cord, he has another round his neck which the master holds in his hand, and with which he pulls him back. It is by this means that they accustom the lion by degrees to become tame with people, and on my arrival at Sidhpur I witnessed this spectacle without leaving my carriage. - [Previous: 14.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.14.2.4) - [Next: 14.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.14.2.6) - [Up: 14.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.14.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.14.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.14.2.5) · Pramāṇa