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9. The prince of the state to which the mission was sent treated his guests in this way :- Till their departure from their coming, they were supplied from the three stores (provided for such purposes). Living animals were sent to them at their lodging. A provision of five sets of the three animals for slaughter was made inside. Thirty loads of rice, the same number of grain with the straw, and twice as many of fodder and firewood were provided outside. There were five pairs of birds that went in flocks every day. All the attendants had cattle supplied to them for their food. There was one meal (a day in the court), and two (spare) entertainments in the temple). The banquets and occasional bounties were without any definite number. With such generosity was the importance of the ceremony indicated?
10. They could not always be so profuse as this in antiquity in the use of their wealth ; but their employment of it thus liberally (in connexion with these missions) showed how they were prepared to devote it to the maintenance of the ceremonies. When they expended it as they did on the ceremonies, then in the states ruler and minister did not encroach on one another's rights and possessions, and different states did not attack one another. It was on this account that the kings made their statute about these missions, and the feudal lords did their utmost to fulfil its.
1 The particulars here briefly mentioned and many others are to be found in great detail in the 8th division of the I Lî, Books 1618, which are on the subject of these missions.
About twenty years ago, when I had occasion to accompany a mandarin from Canton to a disturbed district in the interior, he
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| SR No. | 007678 |
| Book Title | Satapatha Bramhana Part 02 |
| 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 |