1. So then there were in Uda two persons, Ukashi the Elder Brother and Ukashi the Younger Brother. So His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko sent the crow eight feet long in advance to ask these persons, saying: "The august child of the Heavenly Deity has made a progress hither. Will ye respectfully serve him?" Hereupon Ukashi the Elder Brother waited for and shot at the messenger with a whizzing barb to make him turn back. So the place where the whizzing barb fell is called Kabura-zaki. Saying that he intended to wait for and smite His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko, he tried to collect an army. But being unable to collect an army he said deceitfully that he would respectfully serve His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko, and built a great palace, and in that palace set a pitfall, and waited. Then Ukashi the Younger Brother came out to His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko beforehand, and made obeisance, saying: "Mine elder brother Ukashi the Elder Brother has shot at and turned back the messenger of the august child of the Heavenly Deity, and, intending to wait for and attack thee, has tried to collect an army; but, being unable to collect it, he has built a great palace, and set a gin within it, intending to wait for and catch thee. So I have come out to inform thee of this." Then the two persons His Augustness Michi-no-Omi, ancestor of the Ohotomo Chieftains, and His Augustness Ohokume, ancestor of the Kume Lords, summoned Ukashi the Elder Brother and reviled him, saying: "Into the great palace which thou hast built to respectfully serve His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko, be thou the first to enter, and declare plainly the manner in which thou intendest respectfully to serve him; " and forthwith grasping the hilts of their cross-swords, playing with their spears, and fixing arrows in their bows, they drove him in, whereupon he was caught in the gin which he himself had set, and died. So they forthwith pulled him out, and cut him in pieces. So the place is called Uda-no-Chihara. Having done thus, His Augustness Kamu-yamato-ihare-biko bestowed on his august army the whole of the great banquet presented to him by Ukashi the Younger Brother. At this time he sang, saying: "The woodcock, for which I laid a wood-cock-snare and waited in the high castle of Uda, strikes not against it; but a valiant whale strikes against it. If the elder wife ask for fish, slice off a little like the berries of the stand soba; if the younger wife ask for fish, slice off a quantity like the berries of the vigorous sasaki."

2. "Ugh! pfui! dolt! This is saying thou rascal. Ah! pfui! dolt! This is laughing him to scorn."

3. So Ukashi the Younger Brother he is the ancestor of the Water Directors of Uda.

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What is Scripture?

Scripture is a browser-based reader for sixteen sacred texts spanning multiple religious and literary traditions. It provides chapter-by-chapter navigation, full-text search across all works, word concordance with frequency analysis, verse-linked notes, text-to-speech, and deep linking to any chapter or verse.

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The collection spans Abrahamic, East Asian, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Finnish, and Norse traditions. It includes King James biblical text and Apocrypha, Pickthall's Quran, the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, Legge's Four Books, Tao Te Ching, and Book of Poetry, Chamberlain's Kojiki, West's Bundahishn, Kern's Lotus Sutra, Haug and West's Arda Viraf, Crawford's Kalevala, and Bellows' Poetic Edda.

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