Book Title: Questions of King Milinda Part 02
Author(s): T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Oxford

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________________ 166 THE TEXTS OF TÂOISM. BK. XXIX. BOOK XXIX. Part III. SECTION VII. Tâo Kih, or "The Robber Kih?! 1. Confucius was on terms of friendship with Lid-hsia Ki?, who had a brother named Tâo Kih. This Tâo Kih had 9,000 followers, who marched at their will through the kingdom, assailing and oppressing the different princes. They dug through walls and broke into houses; they drove away people's cattle and horses; they carried off people's wives and daughters. In their greed to get, they forgot the claims of kinship, and paid no regard to their parents and brethren. They did not sacrifice to their ancestors. Wherever they passed through the country, in the larger states the people guarded their city walls, and in the smaller the people took to their strongholds. All were distressed by them. Confucius spoke to Lid-hsiâ Kỉ, saying, 'Fathers should be able to lay down the law to their sons, 1 See vol. xxxix, pp. 157, 158. Better known as Lig-hsiâ Hui, under which designation he is mentioned both in the Confucian Analects and in Mencius, but it is an anachronism to say that Confucius was on terms of friendship with him. He was a scion of the distinguished family of Kan in LŲ, and was called Kan Hwo and Kan Khin. We find, in the Zo Kwan, a son of his employed in an important expedition in B.C. 634, so that he, probably, had passed away before Confucius was born in B.C. 551, and must certainly have deceased before the death of Zze-la (480), which is mentioned in the Book. Digitized by Google

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