[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) › 156.1.2 # Travels in India (Tavernier) 156.1.2 Travels in India (Ball) 156.1.2 - **Language:** English ### [156.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.156.1.2) If one engages only one he pays him but 2 écus, but if he takes two he must pay 4 écus to each; if he takes three, each ought to receive 6; and if he employs twelve, the payment goes on increasing in the same ratio. As I wished that the thing should be done in an honourable manner, and was ignorant of this pleasant custom, I engaged six of these persons, and when it came to paying them I was astonished to find that each one asked for 12 écus, and that I had to pay 72 for this single item. As for the pall which is placed on the bier, it has to be hired at the hospital, and it is a right which the poor enjoy who derive profit therefrom. The commonest is of cloth, and the three others of velvet, one without fringe, another with fringe, and a third with fringe and large tassels at the four corners. This causes an expenditure of from 5 to 30 écus, and I paid 20 for the one which was placed on my brother’s bier. A cask of Spanish wine, which was drunk at the interment, cost me 200 piastres. I gave 26 for three hams and some ox tongues, and 22 for some pastry. It is also the custom to send on the following day some money to enable those who have carried the body to the ground to rejoice, and as there were eight of them I paid them 20 écus. It cost 16 for the place in the cemetery where the body was interred — 100 écus being asked for interment in the church. - [Previous: 156.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.156.1.1) - [Next: 156.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.156.1.3) - [Up: 156.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.156.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.156.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.156.1.2) · Pramāṇa