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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THE LI ki.
BK.IX.
11. For the princes to suspend their drums and bells) in four rows like the walls of an apartment (after the fashion of the king), and to use a white bull in sacrificing 1; to strike the sonorous jade; to use the red shields with their metal fronts and the cap with descending tassels in dancing the Tâ-wû; and to ride in the grand chariot :these were usages which they usurped. The towered gateway with the screen across the path, and the stand to receive the emptied cups; the axes embroidered on the inner garment with its vermilion colour :-these were usurpations of the Great officers. Thus, when the son of Heaven was small and weak, the princes pushed their usurpations; and when the Great officers were strong, the princes were oppressed by them. In this state (those officers) gave honour to one another as if they had been of (high) degree; had interviews with one another and made offerings; and bribed one another for their individual benefit: and thus all usages of ceremony were thrown into disorder. It was not lawful for the princes to sacrifice to the king to whom they traced their ancestry, nor for the Great officers to do so to the rulers from whom they sprang. The practice of having a temple to such rulers in their private families, was contrary to propriety. It originated with the three Hwan?
12. The son of Heaven preserved the descend
1 That a white bull was used in LQ in sacrificing to the duke of Kâu, appears from the fourth of the Praise Odes of La. See vol. iii, p. 343.
2 These must be the three families of La, so powerful in the time of Confucius, all descended from duke Hwan. The expression in this (state)' shows that the writer was a man of LQ. 8 We must think of this son of Heaven' as the founder of a
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