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1If nine months were due to the deceased, he included the time that had elapsed since he assumed the sackcloth and girdle. 28. The master, presiding at the mourning rites for a concubine, himself conducted the placing of her tablet (in its proper shrine). At the sacrifices at the end of the first and second years, he employed her son to preside at them. The sacrifice at her offering did not take place in the principal apartment. 29. A ruler did not stroke the corpse of a servant or a concubine. 30. Even after the wife of a ruler was dead, the concubines (of the harem) wore mourning for her SECT. I, PT. Il. BA xt. 139 relatives. If one of them took her place (and acted as mistress of the establishment), she did not wear mourning for the relatives’. Part II. 1. If one heard of the mourning rites for a cousin for whom he had to wear mourning for nine months or more, when he looked in the direction of the place where those rites were going on, he wailed. If he were going to accompany the funeral to the grave, but did not get to the house in time, though he met the presiding mourner returning, he himself went on to the grave. The president at the mourning rites for a cousin, though the relationship might not have been near, also presented the sacrifice of Repose. 2. On all occasions of mourning, if, before the mourning robes had all been completed, any one arrived to offer condolences, (the president) took the proper place, wailed, bowed to the visitor, and leaped. 3. At the wailing for a Great officer, another of the same rank, wore the conical cap, with a sackcloth band round it. He wore the same also when engaged with the coffining. If he had on the cap of dolichos-cloth in mourning for his own wife or son, and were called away to the lighter mourning for a distant relative, he put on the conical cap and band. 4. (In wailing for) an eldest son, he carried a staff, but not for that son’s son; he went without it 1 This lady took the deceased wife’s place, and performed many of the duties; but she had not the position of wife. Anciently, a feudal ruler could only, in all his life, have one wife, one lady, that is, to be called by that name. 140 THE Li xf. BK. XVIII. to the place of wailing. (An eldest son), going to wail for his wife, if his parents were alive, did not carry a staff, nor bow so as to lay his forehead on the ground. If (only) his mother were alive, he did not lay his forehead to the ground. Where such a prostration should have taken place, as in the case of one who brought a gift with his condolence, an ordinary bow was made. 5. (An officer) who had left a feudal prince and gone into the service of a Great officer did not on the lord’s death return and wear mourning for him ; - nor did one who had left a Great officer to serve a prince, return to mourn on the death of the former.
25. (An officer) who had left a feudal prince and gone into the service of a Great officer did not on the lord’s death return and wear mourning for him ; - nor did one who had left a Great officer to serve a prince, return to mourn on the death of the former. 6. The strings of the mourning cap served to distinguish it from one used on a festive occasion. The silk cap worn after a year’s mourning, and _ belonging to that for three years, had such strings, and the seam of it was on the right. That worn in the mourning of five months, and a still shorter time, was seamed on the left. The cap of the shortest mourning had a tassel of reddish silk. The ends of the girdle in the mourning of nine months and upward hung loose. 7. Court robes were made with fifteen skeins (1200 threads) in the warp. Half that number made the coarse cloth for the shortest mourning, which then was glazed by being steeped with ashes. 8. In sending presents to one another for the use of the dead, the princes of the states sent their carriages of the second class with caps and robes. They did not send their carriages of the first class, nor the robes which they had themselves received (from the king). 9. The number of (small) carriages sent (to the SECT. I. PT. I. ' 3A xt. 14! grave) was according to that of the parcels of flesh to be conveyed. Each one had a pall of coarse cloth. All round were ornamental figures. These parcels were placed at the four corners of the coffin. 10. (Sometimes) rice was sent, but Y(-jze said that such an offering was contrary to rule. The food put down (by the dead) in mourning was only dried meat and pickled. 11. At the sacrifices (after the sacrifice of Repose), the mourner styled himself ‘ The filial son,’ or ‘ The filial grandson ;’ at the previous rites, ‘The grieving son,’ or ‘ The grieving grandson.’ 12, In the square upper garment of the mourner and the sackcloth over it, and in the carriage in which he rode to the grave, there was no difference of degree. 13. The white cap of high (antiquity) and the cap of black cloth were both without any ornamental fringe. The azure-coloured and that of white silk with turned-up rim had such a fringe. 14. A Great officer wore the cap with the square top when assisting at a sacrifice of his ruler; but that of skin when sacrificing at his own shrines. An ordinary officer used the latter in his ruler’s temple, and the cap (of dark cloth) in his own. As an officer wore the skin cap, when going in person to meet his bride, he might also use it at his own shrines. 15. The mortar for the fragrant herbs, in making sacrificial spirits, was made of cypress wood, and the pestle of dryandria. The ladle (for lifting out the flesh) was of mulberry wood, three, some say five, cubits long. The scoop used in addition was of mulberry, three cubits long, with its handle and end carved. 16. The girdle over the shroud used for a prince 142 THE Lf xt. BK. XVIII.
3The ladle (for lifting out the flesh) was of mulberry wood, three, some say five, cubits long. The scoop used in addition was of mulberry, three cubits long, with its handle and end carved. 16. The girdle over the shroud used for a prince 142 THE Lf xt. BK. XVIII. or a Great officer was of five colours; that used for another officer, only of two. 17. The must (put into the grave) was made from the malt of rice. There were the jars (for it and other liquids), the baskets (for the millet), and the boxes (in which these were placed). These were placed outside the covering of the coffin; and then the tray for the mats was put in. 18. The spirit-tablet (which had been set up over the coffin) was buried after the sacrifice of Repose. 19. (The mourning rites for) all wives were according to the rank of their husbands. 20. (Visitors who had arrived) during the slighter dressing of the corpse, the more complete dressing, or the opening (the enclosure where the coffin was), were all saluted and bowed to (after these operations were finished). 21. At the wailing morning and evening, (the coffin) was not screened from view. When the bier had been removed, the curtain was no more suspended. 22, When the ruler came to condole, after the carriage with its coffin (had reached the gate of the temple), the presiding mourner bowed towards him with his face towards the east, and moving to the right of the gate, leaped there, with his face towards the north. Going outside, he waited till the ruler took his departure and bade him go back, after which he put down (by the bier the gifts which the ruler had brought). 23. When 3ze-k4o was fully dressed after his death, first, there were the upper and lower garments both wadded with floss silk, and over them a suit of black with a purple border below; next, there was a suit of white made square and straight, (the SECT. I. PT. It, SA xt. 143 suit belonging to) the skin cap; next, that belonging to the skin cap like the colour of a sparrow’s head ; and next, (that belonging to) the dark-coloured cap, with the square top. 3ang-jze said, ‘In such a dressing there should be nothing of woman’s dress.’ 24. When an officer died on some commission, upon which he had gone for his ruler, if the death took place in a public hotel, they called his soul back ; if in a private hotel, they did not do so. By a public hotel was meant a ruler’s palace, or some other building erected by him, and by a private hotel, the house of a noble, a Great officer, or an officer below that rank}. 25. (On the death of) a ruler, there is the leaping for him for seven days in succession; and on that of a Great officer, it lasts for five days. The women take their share in this expression of grief at intervals, between the presiding mourner and his visitors. On the death of an ordinary officer, it lasts for three days; the women taking their part in the same way.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1If nine months were due to the deceased, he included the time that had elapsed since he assumed the sackcloth and girdle. 28. The master, presiding at the mourning rites for a concubine, himself conducted the placing of her tablet (in its proper shrine). At the sacrifices at the end of the first and second years, he employed her son to preside at them. The sacrifice at her offering did not take place in the principal apartment. 29. A ruler did not stroke the corpse of a servant or a concubine. 30. Even after the wife of a ruler was dead, the concubines (of the harem) wore mourning for her SECT. I, PT. Il. BA xt. 139 relatives. If one of them took her place (and acted as mistress of the establishment), she did not wear mourning for the relatives’. Part II. 1. If one heard of the mourning rites for a cousin for whom he had to wear mourning for nine months or more, when he looked in the direction of the place where those rites were going on, he wailed. If he were going to accompany the funeral to the grave, but did not get to the house in time, though he met the presiding mourner returning, he himself went on to the grave. The president at the mourning rites for a cousin, though the relationship might not have been near, also presented the sacrifice of Repose. 2. On all occasions of mourning, if, before the mourning robes had all been completed, any one arrived to offer condolences, (the president) took the proper place, wailed, bowed to the visitor, and leaped. 3. At the wailing for a Great officer, another of the same rank, wore the conical cap, with a sackcloth band round it. He wore the same also when engaged with the coffining. If he had on the cap of dolichos-cloth in mourning for his own wife or son, and were called away to the lighter mourning for a distant relative, he put on the conical cap and band. 4. (In wailing for) an eldest son, he carried a staff, but not for that son’s son; he went without it 1 This lady took the deceased wife’s place, and performed many of the duties; but she had not the position of wife. Anciently, a feudal ruler could only, in all his life, have one wife, one lady, that is, to be called by that name. 140 THE Li xf. BK. XVIII. to the place of wailing. (An eldest son), going to wail for his wife, if his parents were alive, did not carry a staff, nor bow so as to lay his forehead on the ground. If (only) his mother were alive, he did not lay his forehead to the ground. Where such a prostration should have taken place, as in the case of one who brought a gift with his condolence, an ordinary bow was made. 5. (An officer) who had left a feudal prince and gone into the service of a Great officer did not on the lord’s death return and wear mourning for him ; - nor did one who had left a Great officer to serve a prince, return to mourn on the death of the former.
25. (An officer) who had left a feudal prince and gone into the service of a Great officer did not on the lord’s death return and wear mourning for him ; - nor did one who had left a Great officer to serve a prince, return to mourn on the death of the former. 6. The strings of the mourning cap served to distinguish it from one used on a festive occasion. The silk cap worn after a year’s mourning, and _ belonging to that for three years, had such strings, and the seam of it was on the right. That worn in the mourning of five months, and a still shorter time, was seamed on the left. The cap of the shortest mourning had a tassel of reddish silk. The ends of the girdle in the mourning of nine months and upward hung loose. 7. Court robes were made with fifteen skeins (1200 threads) in the warp. Half that number made the coarse cloth for the shortest mourning, which then was glazed by being steeped with ashes. 8. In sending presents to one another for the use of the dead, the princes of the states sent their carriages of the second class with caps and robes. They did not send their carriages of the first class, nor the robes which they had themselves received (from the king). 9. The number of (small) carriages sent (to the SECT. I. PT. I. ' 3A xt. 14! grave) was according to that of the parcels of flesh to be conveyed. Each one had a pall of coarse cloth. All round were ornamental figures. These parcels were placed at the four corners of the coffin. 10. (Sometimes) rice was sent, but Y(-jze said that such an offering was contrary to rule. The food put down (by the dead) in mourning was only dried meat and pickled. 11. At the sacrifices (after the sacrifice of Repose), the mourner styled himself ‘ The filial son,’ or ‘ The filial grandson ;’ at the previous rites, ‘The grieving son,’ or ‘ The grieving grandson.’ 12, In the square upper garment of the mourner and the sackcloth over it, and in the carriage in which he rode to the grave, there was no difference of degree. 13. The white cap of high (antiquity) and the cap of black cloth were both without any ornamental fringe. The azure-coloured and that of white silk with turned-up rim had such a fringe. 14. A Great officer wore the cap with the square top when assisting at a sacrifice of his ruler; but that of skin when sacrificing at his own shrines. An ordinary officer used the latter in his ruler’s temple, and the cap (of dark cloth) in his own. As an officer wore the skin cap, when going in person to meet his bride, he might also use it at his own shrines. 15. The mortar for the fragrant herbs, in making sacrificial spirits, was made of cypress wood, and the pestle of dryandria. The ladle (for lifting out the flesh) was of mulberry wood, three, some say five, cubits long. The scoop used in addition was of mulberry, three cubits long, with its handle and end carved. 16. The girdle over the shroud used for a prince 142 THE Lf xt. BK. XVIII.
3The ladle (for lifting out the flesh) was of mulberry wood, three, some say five, cubits long. The scoop used in addition was of mulberry, three cubits long, with its handle and end carved. 16. The girdle over the shroud used for a prince 142 THE Lf xt. BK. XVIII. or a Great officer was of five colours; that used for another officer, only of two. 17. The must (put into the grave) was made from the malt of rice. There were the jars (for it and other liquids), the baskets (for the millet), and the boxes (in which these were placed). These were placed outside the covering of the coffin; and then the tray for the mats was put in. 18. The spirit-tablet (which had been set up over the coffin) was buried after the sacrifice of Repose. 19. (The mourning rites for) all wives were according to the rank of their husbands. 20. (Visitors who had arrived) during the slighter dressing of the corpse, the more complete dressing, or the opening (the enclosure where the coffin was), were all saluted and bowed to (after these operations were finished). 21. At the wailing morning and evening, (the coffin) was not screened from view. When the bier had been removed, the curtain was no more suspended. 22, When the ruler came to condole, after the carriage with its coffin (had reached the gate of the temple), the presiding mourner bowed towards him with his face towards the east, and moving to the right of the gate, leaped there, with his face towards the north. Going outside, he waited till the ruler took his departure and bade him go back, after which he put down (by the bier the gifts which the ruler had brought). 23. When 3ze-k4o was fully dressed after his death, first, there were the upper and lower garments both wadded with floss silk, and over them a suit of black with a purple border below; next, there was a suit of white made square and straight, (the SECT. I. PT. It, SA xt. 143 suit belonging to) the skin cap; next, that belonging to the skin cap like the colour of a sparrow’s head ; and next, (that belonging to) the dark-coloured cap, with the square top. 3ang-jze said, ‘In such a dressing there should be nothing of woman’s dress.’ 24. When an officer died on some commission, upon which he had gone for his ruler, if the death took place in a public hotel, they called his soul back ; if in a private hotel, they did not do so. By a public hotel was meant a ruler’s palace, or some other building erected by him, and by a private hotel, the house of a noble, a Great officer, or an officer below that rank}. 25. (On the death of) a ruler, there is the leaping for him for seven days in succession; and on that of a Great officer, it lasts for five days. The women take their share in this expression of grief at intervals, between the presiding mourner and his visitors. On the death of an ordinary officer, it lasts for three days; the women taking their part in the same way.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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