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243.	二	十	傳	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Twenty times the throne was transmitted
	Erh4	shih2	ch'uan2
	Two	ten	transmit

Erh see title.

Shih see line 45.

Ch'uan see line 163. [That is, there were twenty-one Emperors, the Empress who usurped the throne between A.D. 684—705 being excluded.]

244.	三	百	載	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	in a period of three hundred years.
	San1	pai3	tsai3
	Three	hundred	year

San see title.

Pai see line 46.

Tsai see line 193. [The T'ang dynasty lasted from A.D. 618 to 907.]

245.	梁	滅	之	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	The Liang State destroyed it,
	Liang2	mieh4	chih1
	Liang	extinguish	it

Liang see line 228. [It here stands for the name of a State, the Prince of which, by name 朱温 Chu Wên, assassinated the last Emperor of the T'ang dynasty, and placed himself upon the throne, A.D. 907. Eitel wrongly regards Liang as the name of the dynasty mentioned in line 247, thus, "Cheu Wen, the founder of the Heu Liang dynasty, destroyed it."]

Mieh is composed of a phonetic which originally meant to destroy by fire, the word 火 huo fire being present in it, and the radical 水 shui water, which seems to have been added to express the extinction of fire.

Chih see line 1.