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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from him himself to whom the price would become profit?, or is the persistence of these same teachings of the good-so that it may become more abundant unto them than unto the bad, even in the time of scarcity when it is very much raised in price :— they should buy corn at a cheap price during an excess of corn, so that one may keep it until the time of a period of scarcity. 9. When there occurs a necessity for it among the good he sells it at such price as one buys it at that time, that is, the market price (arg-i shatrôik) 3; by that means, in a season of scarcity, much more is obtained in price, and it becomes more plentiful among the good; then a more invigorating (padikhainagtar) praise of him is commendable.
10. And, yet, as regards that which is suitable profit—and also apart from the eating of corn, from anything eatable for the maintenance of life, from medicine and remedies for the healthfulness of life, and from whatever is for the preservation of life-it is allowable that they shall buy and shall sell dear.
CHAPTER L. 1. The forty-ninth question is that you ask thus : If they should sell wine unto foreigners and infidels what is then the decision about it?
? And, therefore, likely to be correct, as it is given in opposition to his own interest. * M14 has begged at a price,' by inserting a stroke.
Without holding it back for an exorbitant rise in prices. • That is, there is no harm in speculating upon prices, except in the case of necessaries of life.
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