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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344 THE LÎ kt.
Br. " 2. King Wd acted according to the example (of Wăn), not presuming to go in anything) beyond it. When king Wăn was ill, wa nursed him without taking off his cap or girdle. When king Wăn took a meal, he also took a meal; and when king Wăn took a second, he did the same. It was not till after twelve days that he intermitted his attentions.
King Wăn said to WQ, What have you been dreaming ?' 'I dreamt,' was the reply, 'that God gave me nine ling?' 'And what do you think was the meaning?' King Wd said, 'There are nine states in the west ;—may it not mean that you will yet bring them all under your happy sway ?' Wăn said, “That was not the meaning. Anciently they called a year ling. The age is also called ling. I am 100; and you are go. I give you three years.' King Wăn was 97 when he died, and king Wa was 93?
* 3. King Khăng, being quite young, could not perform his part at the eastern steps. The duke of Kâu acted as regent, trod those steps, and adminis
Wăn was born in B. c. 1258, and named Khang (1). King Ki died in 1185, when he was in his seventy-fourth year.
1 It is difficult to understand and interpret the latter half of this paragraph. The Khien-lung editors say that, according to the ordinary accounts, king Wû was born when Wån was fifteen years old, and there was an elder son, Yi-khâo, who died prematurely; whereas king Wa died at 93, leaving his son Sung (king Khăng) only seven years old. Wăn,' they said, 'must have married very early, and Wů very late. They say also that they cannot understand the text that Wăn gave to his son three years,' &c., and suppose that some erroneous tradition has here been introduced.
? The king received his nobles at the top of the eastern steps. The phrase 'in the government of the kingdom.
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