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 LI, 1-9.
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better; and such even is the food by which, through having drunk wine, one becomes more virtuous, or does not become more vicious, in thought, word, and deed. 6. When an experiment as regards its being good is tried, so that having drunk it in that proportion one becomes better, or does not become worse, then it is allowable to drink it.
7. When an untried person, for the sake of being tried, has drunk a mingled portion, first of one drinking-cup', secondly of two drinking-cups, and thirdly of three drinking-cups, and through drinking it he becomes more virtuous, or does not become more vicious, in thought?, word, or deed, he is to increase the drinking-cups, and the experiment is allowable unto those tested just so far as the proportion is such that he becomes better, or does not become worse. 8. To those tested it is authorisedly given to that amount through which the experimenting that is mentioned has extended; and to him who it is proved will become worse through the drinking of wine, that amount, through the drinking of which, when given s in the experiment, it was seen that he became worse, is not authorisedly given.
9. In a case of doubt one is to consider him who is orthodox (hd-dino), who has chanted the sacred hymns, and is of good repute, whose drunkenness
Reading âu gâmako, water-cup;' but it is written like av simak in the MSS.
K35 has man, M14 mînisno. . Reading yehabûnto instead of the unintelligible gân bûdo of K35, the alteration being merely lengthening the bottom stroke of the Pahl. b. M14 substitutes barà ye hev ûnêd for bu do gân būdo, which gives the following meaning : "through the drinking of which, in the experiment, it is seen that he becomes thoroughly worse.'
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