Motif
Absurd exchange value reveals corruption
absurd_exchange_value_reveals_corruption
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family False Accusation and Fraud Exposed. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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buddhist
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 BOOK I. / END OF THE STORY ON HOLDING TO THE TRUTH. / END OF THE STORY OF THE SANDY ROAD. / END OF THE STORY OF CHULLAKA THE TREASURER.; lines 8634-8761 confidence: high
A horse-dealer brings five hundred horses; the foolish valuer values all five hundred at one measure of rice, and the horses are placed in the stable.
Five hundred horses are valued at one measure of rice, and then that same measure is valued at the whole of Benares after a bribe.
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