Note 161 — Chapter I
William Johnston translation
Youth destined to be Brahmans, must spend ten years within the precincts of the temple at Triciur, and avoid all intercourse with the female sex. They are obliged also to observe the strictest silence, which continues five years. This is the first degree of philosophy. A.
It thence appears, that Pythagoras must have borrowed his philosophy in part from the Indian philosophers, or others whose doctrine was similar, for his scholars were subjected to silence during the same number of years. See Diogenes Laertius, lib. viii. 10. and Aul. Gellius, Noct. Att. lib. i. 9. F.