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.
YŨ BẢO.
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inches (wide)? In variegated girdles, the colours for a ruler were vermilion and green ; for a Great officer, cerulean and yellow; for an (ordinary) officer, a black border of 2 inches, and this, when carried round the body a second time, appeared to be 4 inches. On all girdles which were tucked in there was no needlework.
24. (An officer) who had received his first commission wore a cover of reddish-purple, with a black supporter for his girdle-pendant. One who had received the second commission wore a scarlet cover, (also) with a black supporter for the pendant; and one who had received the third commission, a scarlet cover, with an onion-green supporter for the pendant?
25. The son of Heaven wore a girdle of plain white silk, with vermilion lining, and ornamented ends.
26. The queen wore a robe with white pheasants embroidered on it; (a princess) wife, one with green pheasants.
27. (The cords that formed the loops and buttons) were 3 inches long, equal to the breadth of the girdle. The rule for the length of the sash (descending from the girdle) was, that, for an officer, it should
This, according to the Khien-lung editors, was the girdle or sash of correct dress,' and white. The variegated girdles, they say, were worn in private and when at leisure.
* The character for a knee-cover here (#, fd) is different from that in paragraph 21 (, pî); but the Khien-lung editors say their significance is exactly the same. How the knee-covers and the supporter or balance-yard (1T, hàng) of the girdle pendant are spoken of together, I do not know.
& The pheasants here referred to are described as I have done in the R-Ya. The wife' is supposed also to include the ladies called the king's 'three helpmates' in Book I, ii, Part ii, 1.
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