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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EPISTLE I, CHAPTER III, 11-17.
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14. The fifth is this, that the custom of providing for all the duties even of the sacred fire (âtūr) by me, and my own desire ?, trained hand ?, unhardened mind, and unhardened heart for managing many things should have become the joy of my mind. 15. Then, too, from having read such writing and such news the healer of distress would be thoroughly connected with my heart and mind, owing to which my intellect would have become quickly fatigued (mândako) by a limited preparation of phrases.
16. The sixth is this, that even he who is a rescued : and better-operating (hu-dâgtar) manwhen, owing to the writing of a learned man of the realm who is desiring the truth, he is so perplexed* on account of a doubt of increasing the after-tearing of the same perplexity-has no doubt of the falsity and little training existent in the worldly.
17. The seventh is this, that if none of these six of which I have written should exist, even then your approved cleverness (sivagdàrih), extolled freedom from strife, hereafter-discerning and complete mind
1 Reading kamako, instead of the unintelligible kåman. · The MSS. omit the last letter of y adman.
* That is, delivered from contamination or sin; virikht is probably to be traced to Av. vi+irikhta, rather than to vit rikhta (Pers. gurêkht).
• K35 has a blank space here, and again a few words further on, but it is doubtful if any words be missing. The spaces are filled up in J and BK, apparently by guess, as follows: J has 'he sees so perplexing a chance, concerning which, owing to the increase of after-tearing of the same perplexity and the arrival of evil, he is doubtful, has no doubt,' &c. And BK has he is so perplexed on account of no doubt of the falsity and little training that existed in the worldly for increasing the after-tearing of the same perplexity, has no doubt, &c.'
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