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0576 Innermost Asia : vol.2
Innermost Asia : vol.2 / Page 576 (Color Image)

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[Figure] XII Ast. ix. 2. (Transcript only.)

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and in the first [year¹] of *Yung-shun* . . . he died during his tenure of office, when the tale of his years was thirty-[ ]. . . . On the fifth day of [ ] he was buried north of the departmental city according to the primordial rites . . . sad; sighing over the stream that flows past²—a long-enduring grief; his kinsmen . . . and . . . ? [. . .³] finally he was encoffined . . . the youthful official's prime of life, truly also . . . inscribed thus.

XII. **Ast. ix, 2.** (Transcript only.)

原 三 六 昌 繼 後 識 君
禮 卯 日 元 藥 郃 性 姓
也 以 乙 年 石 無 清 氾
鳥 其 亥 歲 無 徵 高 諱
呼 年 卒 次 微 年 教 廷
哀 閒 於 己 哲 除 關 仕
甚 九 乃 乃 人 順 前 高
迺 月 第 九 斯 耳 庭 昌
為 三 春 月 逝 疾 聲 縣
銘 日 秋 八 學 疫 除 人
曰 葬 八 申 以 譯   也
  於 十 朔 承   為
  城 有 廿     人
  西         雅
  北         素

This gentleman, by surname Fan, and personal name Yen-shih⁴, was a native of Kao-ch'ang Hsien. His character was one of refined simplicity, his mental faculties were clear and lofty. While he expounded his teaching in the front court, his voice penetrated also to the back region⁵. Unfortunately, when he was little more than a year past sixty⁶, a malignant disease laid hold of him, in which neither drugs nor probing were of any avail. Ah me! thus does the wise man pass away⁷. On the *i-hai* day, the twenty-sixth of the ninth moon, the first day of which is *jên-shên*⁸, in the *chi-ch'ou* year, the first of *Yung-ch'ang*⁹, he died at his private residence, aged eighty-three¹⁰, and in the same year, on the third day of the intercalary ninth moon¹¹, he was buried