Satapatha Bramhana Part 02

SR No.: 007678
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Julius Eggeling
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1885
Total Pages: 2521
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 44 MB

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SECT. II.
YÜ SÃO.
tained prepared liquors ? Great officers had the vase on one side of them upon a tray without feet; other officers had it in a similar position on a tray with feet.
SECTION II. 1. At the ceremony of capping, the first cap put on was one of black linen. The use of this extended from the feudal lords downwards. It might, after having been thus employed, be put away or disused 9.
2. The dark-coloured cap, with red strings and tassels descending to the breast, was used at the capping of the son of Heaven. The cap of black linen, with strings and tassels of various colours, was used at the capping of a feudal prince. A darkcoloured cap with scarlet strings and tassels was worn by a feudal lord, when fasting. A dark-coloured cap with gray strings and tassels was worn by officers when similarly engaged.
3. A cap of white silk with the border or roll of a dark colour was worn (? at his capping) by a son or grandson (when in a certain stage of mourning)". A similar cap with a plain white edging, was worn after the sacrifice at the end of the year's mourning. (The same cap) with strings hanging down five inches,
The gratification of their taste was the principal thing at festive entertainments of the common people.
. On the two trays mentioned here,—the yu (composed oft, and ts on the right of it) and the kin (s),-see Book VIII, i, 12.
Such a cap had been used anciently; and it was used in the ceremony, though subsequently disused, out of respect to the ancient custom.
• When his grandfather was dead, and his father (still alive) was in deep mourning for him.
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