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. XIV.
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TÂ KWÂN.
3. Thus he regulated the services to be rendered to his father and grandfather before him ;-giving honour to the most honourable. He regulated the places to be given to his sons and grandsons below him ;—showing his affection to his kindred. He regulated (also) the observances for the collateral branches of his cousins ;-associating all their members in the feasting. He defined their places according to their order of descent; and his every distinction was in harmony with what was proper and right. In this way the procedure of human duty was made complete.
4. When a sage sovereign stood with his face to the south, and all the affairs of the kingdom came before him, there were five things which for the time claimed his first care, and the people were not reckoned among them. The first was the regulating what was due to his kindred (as above); the second, the reward of merit; the third, the promotion of worth ; the fourth, the employment of ability; and the fifth, the maintenance of a loving vigilance. When these five things were all fully realised, the people had all their necessities satisfied, all that they wanted supplied. If one of them were defective, the people could not complete their lives in comfort.
It was necessary for a sage on the throne of government to begin with the above) procedure of human duty.
5. The appointment of the measures of weight, length, and capacity; the fixing the elegancies (of ceremony); the changing the commencement of the year and month ; alterations in the colour of dress ; differences of flags and their blazonry; changes in vessels and weapons, and distinctions in dress :
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