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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IV. THE BARESHNOM CEREMONY. :
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94. 'Thou shalt sprinkle on his left knee, [above just as it is turned, and below the slender part; there are some who would say thus: “As much above it as below."] 95. Then the fiend of corruption rushes upon his right shin.
96. “Thou shalt sprinkle on his right shin. 97. Then the fiend of corruption rushes upon his left shin.
98. 'Thou shalt sprinkle on his left shin, (from the knee unto the place where the leg and foot unite.] 99. Then the fiend of corruption rushes upon his right ankle'.
100. “Thou shalt sprinkle on his right ankle. 101. Then the fiend of corruption rushes upon his left ankle.
102. “Thou shalt sprinkle on his left ankle, (just as the leg and foot unite, that is, while the ten toes are back to the ground.] 103. Then the fiend of corruption rushes upon his right instep.
104. 'Thou shalt sprinkle on his right instep. 105. Then the fiend of corruption rushes upon his left instep.
106. 'Thou shalt sprinkle on his left instep, [from the place where the leg and foot unite, to the end of his toes.] 107. Then the fiend of corruption turns dejected under the sole of the foot, and its likeness is as it were the wing of a fly's body.
108. “The toes being held quite in union with the ground, his heel is held up from the ground. 109. Thou shalt sprinkle on his right sole. 110. Then the fiend of corruption rushes upon his left sole.
* The word zang means rather the lower part of the leg.'
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