Motif
ancestral feud continuing through bloodline
ancestral_feud_continuing_through_bloodline
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Treachery and Forbidden Kin Combat. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
hindu
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Maha-bharata BOOK IX / DRONA-BADHA / BOOK X / KARNA-BADHA; lines 5799-5939 confidence: high
The passage states that slaughter has not ended with the day and that feud and a father's anger continue in the children's blood.
The passage ends by saying feud and the father's anger course in the children's blood after the battle day closes.
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