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0574 Innermost Asia : vol.2
Innermost Asia : vol.2 / Page 574 (Color Image)

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X. Ast. (uncertain grave). (Transcript only.)

○○○○○○○○○○○○
○○○○○涙○○○○○○
○○悲垂路一○○○○日元
○○號頑珠擢朝雖作○○已年
○○鄉遜更沽物留室俱也亥歲
○○閭卯添仲化致之備斯除次
○宗痛以斑思掩使棟百乃薩戊
○族惜其竹嘉逐冬棟行禀納辰
○號鳴日春德風栢何無性王九
○姚呼?賓秋奇光擢期顯純雅月
之隣哀葬一想隣柯近爲和者壬
土里哉斯百餘里春川鄉景西午
尒痛其陵有風悲薩旆里行州朔

The *chi-hai* day, [the eighteenth] of the ninth moon, the first day of which is *jên-wu*, in the *mou-ch'ên* year, the first [of *Tsung-chang*¹].

The Ch'u-sa-na² Wang Ya-chê was [a native of . . .³] in Hsi-chou. His natural disposition was simple and friendly. His illustrious conduct⁴ . . ., . . . both perfect. In all his acts there was no deficiency. He was the . . . of his village, the pillar⁵ of his house: how could it be anticipated that he would pass away like running water? Not . . ., . . . hard to detain, causing the winter cypress⁶ to be destroyed root and branch, and the spring shoots . . . One morning he was metamorphosed⁷, following the play of wind and light: the neighbouring hamlets mourned . . ., beating their breasts and weeping on the . . .⁸ highways, thinking with admiration of his noble virtues, meditating on his exemplary character⁹, dropping . . . tears like pearls, and adding to the number of speckled bamboos¹⁰. He passed away at the age of a hundred and . . .¹¹, and on the same day he was encoffined and buried in this tomb¹².

. . . uttered cries of lamentation.
The whole countryside was overwhelmed with grief.
Alack and alas!