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. II.
From all quarters they look to you for an example in ceremonies; let me advise you to be careful in the matter.' Zze-sze said, 'Of what have I to be careful? I have heard that when there are certain ceremonies to be observed, and he has not the necessary means for them. a superior man does not observe them, and that neither does he do so, when there are the ceremonies, and he has the means, but the time is not suitable; of what have I to be careful?'
9. Hsien-zze So said, 'I have heard that the ancients made no diminution in the degrees of mourning on any other ground); but mourned for every one above and below them according to his relationship. Thus Wăn, the earl of Thăng, wore the year's mourning for Măng-hd, who was his uncle, and the same for Măng Phi, whose uncle he was.'
10. Hâu Ma said, 'I heard Hsien-gze say about the rites of mourning, that (a son) should certainly think deeply and long about them all, and that (for instance) in buying the coffin he should see that, inside and outside, it be equally) well completed. When I die, let it be so also with me?'
11. 3ăng-gze said, 'Until the corpse has its ornaments put on it, they curtain off the hall; and after the slighter dressing the curtain is removed.' Kungliang-gze said, 'Husband and wife are at first all in
13ze-sze's mother, after his father's death, had married again into the Shll family of Wei. What mourning was 3ze-sze now to wear for her? Lid Zo seems to have apprehended that he would be carried away by his feelings and would do more than was according to rule in such a case. Sze-sze's reply to him is not at all explicit.
* This record is supposed to be intended to ridicule Hâu Ma for troubling himself as he did.
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