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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was low and stuttering, as if he could not get his words out. The officers whom he advanced to responsible charges in the depositories of Zin were more than seventy. During his life, he had no contentions with any of them about gain, and when dying he required nothing from them for his sons.
26. Shu-kung Pht instructed (his son) Zze-lia (in the rules of ceremony); and when he died, 3zelid's wife, who was a plain, blunt woman, wore for him the one year's mourning and the headband with its two ends tied together. (Phi's brother), Shu-kung Khien spoke to 3ze-lid about it, and requested that she should wear the three months mourning and the simple headband; saying, 'Formerly, when I was mourning for my aunts and sisters, I wore this mourning, and no one forbade it.' When he withdrew, however, (3ze-lid) made his wife wear the three months' mourning and the simple headband ?
27. There was a man of Khăng, who did not go into mourning on the death of his elder brother. Hearing, however, that 3ze-kâo was about to become governor of the city, he forthwith did so. The people of Khăng said, “The silkworm spins
i ShQ-kung Phî was the first of a branch of the Shu-sun clan, descended from the ruling house of Lu. The object of the paragraph seems to be to show, that Zze-lit's wife, though a plain simple woman, was taught what to do, by her native feeling and sense, in a matter of ceremony, more correctly than the two gentlemen, mere men of the world, her husband and his uncle. The paragraph, however, is not skilfully constructed, nor quite clear. Kång Hsüan thought that Zze-lid was Phi's son, which, the Khien-lung editors say, some think a mistake, They do not give definitely their own opinion,
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