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Earth, bat was taken ill by the way and died at Lo-yang. SsA-ma Tao-tzu ^ s%M.^' ^•^' 864-402. A scion of the 1763 princely honse of Lang-yeh, who was a pure-minded, quiet boy, and gained the esteem of Hsieh An. At ten years of age he became Prince of Lang-yeh, and later on a boon-companion of the Emperor Hsiao Wu Ti. Promoted to the Princedom of Enei-chi, he took the. worthless Wang Euo-pao into friendship and gradually gare way to habits of intemperance. After the death of the latter he left all matters of State in the hands of his son ^ j^ Tfian- hsien, who, though only 16, was an extremely astute young man. Ttlan-hsien was orercome by the forces of Huan Hsilan and put to death, while his father was taken prisoner and subsequently poisoned. Canonised as ^.

Ssu-ma Te fj II ^ (T. ^^). A.D. 882-418. Son of the 1764 Emperor Hsiao Wu, and tenth sorereign of the E. Chin dynasty. He was little better than an idiot, and was entirely in the hands of a gang of unprincipled and incapable men who had risen to power under his father. In 898, the year after his accession, the Gh4n State took most of Honan. From 899 to 402, Chehkiang and Eiangnan suffered from the attacks of Sun En, whose defeat was entirely due to Liu Tfl. Then followed the contest between Huan Hsuan and the Prince jQ j^ T^an-hsien. Li 410 the capital was again saved by Liu Til from two rebels who had been allowed to gorern in Chehkiang and Euangtung, while Sstich'uan revolted in 405 and was not recovered until 418. Liu Ttl, who in 416 became Prime Minister and Field Marshal of the whole empire, recovered the territory up to the Yellow River, and in 417 conquered Ch4n, most of which soon fell to Hsia. The Emperor was strangled by his orders in the following year. Canonised as ^^^^ Sstt-ma Te-wen fj l| ^ ^. A.D. 885-421. Younger brother 1765

of the Emperor An Ti, and elerenth and last sovereign of the E.

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