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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SECT. I.
THE QUESTIONS OF BĂNG-SZE.
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rule. If it be the father or mother of the lady who died, the son-in-law will follow a similar course?'
18. 3ăng-zze asked, “The son-in-law has met the lady in person, and she is on the way with him :-if (then) his father or mother die, what course should be adopted ?'
Confucius said, 'The lady will change her dress 2; and in the long linen robe ), with the cincture of white silk round her hair, will hasten to be present at the mourning rites. If, while she is on the way, it be her own father or mother who dies, she will return.'
19. 'If the son-in-law have met the lady in person, and before she has arrived at his house, there occur a death requiring the year's or the nine months' mourning, what course should be adopted ?'
Confucius said, 'Before the gentleman enters, he will change his dress in a place outside. The lady will enter and change her dress in a place inside. They will then go to the proper positions and wail.'
3ăng-zze asked, 'When the mourning is ended, will they not resume the marriage ceremonies?'
* Is the final marriage of the lady to the original betrothed son-in-law,' or bridegroom as we should say; or to another, that she may not pass the proper time for her marrying? Khung Ying-tå, and other old commentators, advocate the latter view. Others, and especially the Khien-lung editors, maintain the former; and I have indicated in the version my agreement with them. There are difficulties with the text; but Confucius would hardly have sanctioned the other course.
. At the house of him who was now her husband.
* This, called the deep garment,' had the body and skirt sown together. See Book XXXIV.
* This would be done, it is said, by Hsü Sze-zhăng (Ming dynasty), to allow play to her filial piety, but she would live at the house of the son-in-law.'
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