Motif
animal bride chooses animal husband
animal_bride_chooses_animal_husband
A motif of the Shapeshifter and Transformation family, within the sub-family Love, Kinship, and Marriage Transformations. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
buddhist
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 INDIAN TALES FROM TIBETAN SOURCES. / THE RELIGIONS OF INDIA. / BY A. BARTH. / FOOTNOTES:; lines 17304-17417 confidence: high
A fable is said to be carved in bas relief around the Great Tope at Bharhut, where a fair gosling is represented choosing the peacock for her husband; it is also referred to in a Pañca Tantra stanza and said not to have reached Europe.
The Bharhut relief is described as showing a fair gosling choosing the peacock for her husband.
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