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 LXXVIII, 11-17.
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• 14. As much on account of the conversation as on account of the companionship of the man who goes unto various women, for the sake of a man's sin, and is unatoning, should his own body be also defiled with bodily refuse (higar-hômônd)', or should those kinds of harm be not kept away from another, even then every single time of the bodily refuse bringing harm to his own body is a sin of sixty stirs 3, and through making his own body defiled with bodily refuse is each time a sin of sixty stirs ; and if he washes with water that defilement with his own bodily refuse, or that which is harmed thereby, every single time it is a sin of six hundred * stirs.
15. And if it be a foreign or infidel woman, apart from the sinfulness about which I have written, it is a sin of sixty stirs on account of not controlling the sins and vicious enjoyment of the foreign woman. 16. And, finally, the other various sins which are owing to this sin are very numerous, and grievous to thousands of connections, and it is thereby contaminating to them in a fearful manner.
17. The retribution is renunciation of sin in procuring pardon; and the renunciation in his turning from equally grievous disobedience', every single
1 See Chap. XLVIII, 19.
9 M14 has or he does not wash those harmful kinds of bodily resuse,' which is inconsistent with what follows.
* This is the estimated weight of a Khôr sin, originally the crime of inflicting a severe hurt, ranging from a bruise to a wound or broken bone not endangering life (see Sls. I, 1, 2). The weight was probably equal to that of 84 růpis.
* M14 has three hundred.'
* Reading asrüstih as in M14, instead of the aitrôistoih of K35. Possibly the latter word might be read 3-trôîstõîh, the
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