Text of Confucianism Part 02

SR No.: 007676
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1882
Total Pages: 2405
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 43 MB

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CHAPTER XXXI, 10-15.
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that name of it is this, that of the material food in the world that which is the product of cattle is said to be the best (på shům), among the products of cattle in use as food is the butter of milk, and among butters that is extolled as to goodness which they shall make in the second month of the year, and when Mitrô 2 is in the constellation Taurus; as that month is scripturally (dinðiko) called Zaremêyâs, the explanation of the name to be accounted for is this, that its worldly representative (andâ zako) is the best food in the world.
15. And there is no giving out of assistance by the soul of the righteous from heaven and the supreme heaven; for, as to that existence full
Mkh. II, 152); it is to be distinguished from the draught of immortality, called Hush, which is prepared from the fat of the ox Hadhayôs and the white Hôm at the time of the resurrection (see Bd. XXX, 25). .
If the writer refers to the correct solar year of Bd. XXV, 21, beginning at the vernal equinox, the second month would be 19th April-19th May when the sun is in the conventional sign of Taurus; but the ordinary Parsi year in his time commenced in the middle of April, and its second month would be May-June when the sun (about A.D. 880) would be in the actual constellation of Taurus. So that the statements in the text afford no certain indication of the particular calendar used by the author.
. The angel of the sun's light, here used for the sun itself.
* The fifteenth day of the second month of the Parsi year is the season festival called Maid hyô-zaremaya, mid-verdure,' in the Avesta; being also the middle of the second month, the author assumes that the name of that month was originally Zaremaya. The Pahl, word can also be read Zar-mah, the month of gold, or the green month.'
• That is, there is no intercession of saints for those still in the world. The only interceders are the angels and guardian spirits, and they go no further than to obtain strict justice for every one according to his worldly merits.
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