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THE LI ki.
BK. II.
saying, 'When I am dead, you must make my coffin large, and make my two concubines lie in it with me, one on each side. When he died, his son said, "To bury the living with the dead is contrary to propriety; how much more must it be so to bury them in the same coffin l' Accordingly he did not put the two ladies to death.
20. Kung Sui died in Khui; and on the next day, which was Zăn-wų, the sacrifice of the previous day was notwithstanding repeated in the capital of La). When the pantomimes entered, however, they put away their futes. Kung-nf said, It was contrary to rule. When a high minister dies, the sacrifice of the day before should not be repeated?'
21. When the mother of K1 Khang-gze died, Kung-shồ Zo was still young. After the dressing, Pan asked leave to let the coffin down into the grave by a mechanical contrivance. They were about to accede, when Kung-kien Kia said, “No. According to the early practice in Lu, the ducal house used (for this purpose) the arrangement looking like large stone pillars, and the three families that like large wooden columns. Pan, you would, in the case of another man's mother, make trial of your ingenuity ;-could you not in the case of your own mother do so? Would that distress you ? Bah!' They did not allow him to carry out his plans
See this incident in the Chinese Classics, V, i, pp. 301, 302, where the account of it is discussed in a note. • This must be the greater dressing.
Pan and Zo were probably the same man; but we know that Pan lived at a later period. The incident in this paragraph therefore is doubted.
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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 |