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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BK. XIL
MING THANG WEI.
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5. The Hall of Distinction was so called, because in it the rank of the princes was clearly shown as high or low'.
6. Formerly, when Kâu of Yin was throwing the whole kingdom into confusion, he made dried slices of (the flesh of) the marquis of Kwei?, and used them in feasting the princes. On this account the duke of Kau assisted king wa in attacking Kâu. When king Wa died, king Khăng being young and weak, the duke took the seat of the son of Heaven”, and governed the kingdom. During six years he gave audience to all the princes in the Hall of Distinction ; instituted ceremonies, made his instruments of music, gave out his (standard) weights and measures, and there was a grand submission throughout the kingdom.
7. In the seventh year, he resigned the government to king Khăng; and he, in consideration of the duke's services to the kingdom, invested him with (the territory about) Khü-fa", seven hundred 11 square, and sending forth a thousand chariots of
* See the introduction, vol. xxvii, page 28.
s. The marquis of Kwei' appears in Sze-mâ Khien's history of Yin (near the end), as the marquis of Khill (tu ), and is made into pickle. The reference, no doubt, is to some act of atrocious and wanton cruelty on the part of Kâu.
. This can only mean that the duke, as regent, administered the government, though the compiler of the Book wanted to exalt his personality beyond the bounds of truth.
• The text is—measures of length and of capacity.
. Khu-fd is still a district city in the department of Yen-kâu, Shan-tung. It was the capital of La; and is called by foreigners
the city of Confucius.' It contains the great temple of the sage, and is the residence of his representative-descendant, with thousands of other Khungs.
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