SECTION II. - THE OUTSIDE.

§ I. - _Fêtes nuns ._

In the certain convenient days (splendors) amateurs' company ( society ? ) assembles in the temple of the goddess Sarasvati (goddess of the fine art).

There, we try the singers recently arrived in the village. The next day we give them some bonus and we hold ( retain ? ) those who pleased.

The members of this company ( society ? ) act so in the times of distress as in those who are prosperous.

They exercise the hospitality to the foreigners who came to the meeting.

They also act during the other holidays ( name-days ? ) in honour of some divinity.

§ 2. - _Promenades in gardens and in public baths ._

The men ( people ? ) make to it elegantly dressed together with courtesans and with a numerous continuation ( suite ? ) of servants.

Three sorts of men ( people ? ), in these circumstances, lend their good offices to the rich persons and to the courtesans, they are:

1 ° Pithamarda, which possesses only its talent to make everything and to show everything to magister ).

2 ° Vita is the one who, having lost his fortune, is, because of it, of the ancient ( former ? ) education and of its former ( old ? ) relations of friendship in the village, successful candidate to the rich and the courtesans and lives on what he can pull ( fire ? ).

It is the unofficial parasite.

3 ° Vidashka is a sort of jester, utility, always a brahmane, which everybody welcomes for his ( her ? ) cheerfulness and his ( her;its ? ) spiritual covered [ 16 ].

[ Note 16: it is the madman of the Middle Age whose type Walter Scott gave us in the person of Wamba (novel of _Ivanhoé _).]

These three sorts of persons are usually employed to operate the reconciliations between the rich men ( people ? ) and the courtesans.

We also use ( employ ? ) the women beggars, those who have the shaved head ( the widows) and the former ( old ? ) courtesans who possess appropriate talents.