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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of a relief chariot (that drove up) to him, when he said, 'I did not consult the tortoise-shell (about the movement). Hsien Pân-fd said, 'On no other occasion did such a disaster occur; that it has occurred to-day is owing to my want of courage.' Forthwith he died in the fight). When the groom was bathing the horses, a random arrow was found (in one of them), sticking in the flesh under the flank; and (on learning this), the duke said, It was not his fault;' and he conferred on him an honorary name. The practice of giving such names to (ordinary) officers began from this.
18. Zăng-gze was lying in his chamber very ill. Yo-kăng Zze-khun was sitting by the side of the couch; zăng Yüan and zăng Shăn were sitting at (their father's) feet; and there was a lad sitting in a corner holding a torch, who said, 'How beautifully coloured and bright! Is it not the mat of a Great officer ?' 3ze-khun (tried to stop him, but Zăng-zze had heard him, and in a tone of alarm called him, when he repeated what he had said. “Yes,' said 3ăng-gze, it was the gift of Ki-sun, and I have not been able to change it. Get up, Yüan, and change the mat.' 3ăng Yüan said, 'Your illness is extreme. It cannot now be changed. If you happily survive till the morning, I will ask your leave and reverently change it.' Zăng-zze said, “Your love of me is not equal to his. A superior man loves another on grounds of virtue; a little man's love of another is seen in his indulgence of him. What do I seek for?
was defeated; but the victory was with the duke. See the 30 Kwan, under B.C. 684, and there was a different reading, to which La Teh-ming refers on the passage, that leaves us free to translate as I have done.
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