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Divined on Geng: Lord Xing has illness.231 Our lord will…it should be from Bing (or: starting at day Bing). 3232 prince, as as result, is trying to determine is how to lower the odds that the hunt would go smoothly and that no participants would have calamity or injury. Here he pledges a forty count of cattle and will say a prayer; divinations (16), (18) and (19) propose different quantities and different animal categories. 228 The meaning of this divination account is not entirely clear but the sense is that the prince proposes to putting forty head of cattle on account on behalf of and for the protection of the Many Commanders. Ancestress Geng is the identified recipient, cattle are the objects to be offered, and the Many Commanders are the people identified as potential victims on the up- coming hunt. is a phonogram composed of a right hand + quan 泉 “spring” (phonetic). It is almost certainly a variant of (Tunnan 1111). Huang Tianshu (cited in GuLin bubian, 518) reads it duan 剬 “cut”. 剬is an ancient form of tuan/zhuan 剸 “cut, dismember”. An alternative read- ing is that it is the name of a tribe. : For the reading of bao 虣, see the commentary to 14. This graph replaces “tiger 虎” with “pig 豕”. On 363 it occurs as transitive verb with 大獸 “large wild animal” as its object. 164 | HYZ 114