Text of Confucianism Part 01

SR No.: 007675
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1879
Total Pages: 2829
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 50 MB

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SECT. V.
THE ROYAL REGULATIONS.
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thousand 11 square were equal to 100 spaces of 103 11 square, and contained 900,000,000 mâu.
19. From mount Hăng? to the southernmost point of the Ho was hardly 1000 11. From that point to the Kiang was hardly 1000 11. From the Kiang to mount Hăng in the south was more than 1000 11. From the Ho on the east to the eastern sea was more than 1000 11. From the Ho on the east to the same river on the west was hardly 1000 11; and from that to the Moving Sands was more than 1000 11. (The kingdom) did not pass the Moving Sands on the west, nor mount Hăng on the south. On the east it did not pass the eastern sea, nor on the north did it pass (the other) mount Hăng. All within the four seas, taking the length with the breadth, made up a space of 3000 11 square, and contained eighty trillions of mâus.
20. A space of 100 li square contained ground to the amount of 9,000,000 màu. Hills and mounds, forests and thickets, rivers and marshes, ditches and canals, city walls and suburbs, houses, roads, and
See notes on pages 217, 218. I have said below (the other) mount Hăng ;' but the names, or characters for the names, of the two mountains are different in Chinese.
: What is now called the desert of Gobi.
• As it is in the text = 80 X 10000 X 100000 X 10000 X 100000 mâu. A translator, if I may speak of others from my own experience, is much perplexed in following and verifying the calculations in this and the other paragraphs before and after it. The Khien-lung editors and Wang Thâo use many pages in pointing out the errors of earlier commentators, and establishing the correct results according to their own views, and I have thought it well to content myself with simply giving a translation of the text.
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