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 III, 2-11.
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and other appliances, and the ritual which is such as is declared in the teaching of revelation ; and even now the purifiers, who are just as written about below, keep it in use. 7. When there is a washing they wash just as in the well-teaching statements which are known as those of Médyôk-mâh, of Afarg, and of Sôshậns!, or in the statement of one of those three teachings, or in the statement of one of the high-priests by whom those three teachings are declared as propriety, or has come unto me as the practice of those same three teachings by those of the primitive faith.
8. I deem this deliverance one wholly approvable, and the washer in a washing of that kind, with the Bareshnům ceremony—which is lawfully of that description- I consider as a purifier who is approvable. 9. And the polluted of every description, as above written, who have obtained, for any indispensable reason whatever, a purifier, as above written, whom even now various districts and various places have appointed and approved, are able to wash with the Bareshnům ceremony as above written. 10. Then their washing fifteen times is no deliverance in any way, and to wash them quickly with the Bareshnům ceremony as above written is indispensable.
11. Owing to a washing of the same kind through the Bareshnam ceremony, as is intended, water, fire, and other things, not to provide care for which is un .......... authorisedly is grievously sinful.
See Ep. I, v, 1.
? From pollution. . At this point there is a blank page in K35, and also in the MS. belonging to Mr. Tehmuras Dinshawji, which is supposed to be older; and one line is left blank in BK. It is not, however,
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