VI. Modesty becomes every one, but is a particular ornament to the learned and rich. VII. The state of a married pair, who never deviate from the path of honour, virtue, and mutual duty, is as difficult as that of those who impose on themselves the severest penances. In the gardens, or sacred enclosures, in which children are taught, the _Lingam_, or Priapus, represented under the form of a cylinder, is generally found. It is, however, not worshipped by all the Indians, but only by the _Shivanites_. These are a particular sect, who pay divine honour to Fire, under the form of the god _Shiva_, as the principle or creative power by which every thing was produced. Besides the above idol, there are two other statues, which, for the most part, are placed before the entrance of the school. One of them represents _Ganesha_, the protector of the sciences, and of learned men; and the other the goddess _Sarasvadi_, the goddess of eloquence and history. Every student, as he enters the school, always directs his eyes to these two idols; raises his hands to his head, and shews his respect for them by repeating certain forms of prayer. That with which he salutes _Ganesha_ is commonly in the following words: _Sal Guruve namà_: Adoration to thee, thou true master! Or, _Ganabadaye namà_: Adoration to thee, O Ganabadi! This is real idolatry; but these practices at any rate prove that the Indians accustom their children early to honour the gods, and to consider them as their protectors and benefactors. “Those who are desirous of knowing the power of religion, and the influence of religious opinions,” said the marquis of Kergariou, who commanded the Calypso frigate, “need only go to India.” This observation is indeed just; for among 2000 Indians you will scarcely find one who is not convinced of the necessity of supplicating the gods. Education, and the nature of the climate, are the strongest incitements to the natives to worship the deity, and to submit themselves to his will. The other sciences and branches of learning taught to the Indian youth are: Poetry, _Cavya_; Fencing, _Payatta_; Botany and medicine, _Vaydyashastra_, or _Bheszagiashastra_: Navigation, _Naushastra_: The use of the spear on foot (_Hastiludium_), _Cundèra_: The art of playing at ball, _Pandacali_: Chess, _Ciudarangam_: Tennis, _Colàdi_: Logic, _Tarkashastra_: Astrology, _Giòdisha_: Law, _Svadhyaya_: Silence, _Mauna_[161]. The reader will have already remarked, that surgery, anatomy, and geography are excluded from this catalogue. The Indians are of opinion, that their country is the most beautiful and happiest in the whole world; and for that reason they have very little desire to be acquainted with foreign kingdoms. Their total abstinence from all flesh, and the express prohibition of their religion which forbids them to kill animals, prevent them from directing them, and examining their internal construction.