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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SANG FU HSIAO KI.
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have lived together and both be without sons to preside at their mourning rites; and (the stepfather moreover) must have shared his resources with the son, and enabled him to sacrifice to his grandfather and father, (in order to his wearing mourning for him);-under these conditions they were said to live together. If they had sons to preside at the mourning rites for them, they lived apart.
SECT. II.
17. When people wailed for a friend, they did so outside the door (of the principal apartment), on the left of it, with their faces towards the south'.
18. When one was buried in a grave already occupied, there was no divination about the site (in the second case).
19. The tablet of an (ordinary) officer or of a Great officer could not be placed in the shrine of a grandfather who had been the lord of a state; it was placed in that of a brother of the grandfather who had been an (ordinary) officer or a Great officer. The tablet of his wife was placed by the tablet of that brother's wife, and that of his concubine by the tablet of that brother's concubine.
If there had been no such concubine, it was placed by the tablet of that brother's grandfather; for in all such places respect was had to the rules concerning the relative positions assigned to the tablets of father and son 2. The tablet of a feudal lord could not be placed in the shrine of the son of Heaven (from whom he was born or descended); but that of the son of Heaven, of a feudal lord, or
1 See vol. xxvii, page 134, paragraph 10.
* See vol. xxvii, page 223, paragraph 4, and note.
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