Motif
Animal-speech parable used as rebuke
animal_speech_parable_used_as_rebuke
A motif of the Storytelling and Narrative as Sacred Power family. 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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Vinaya Texts, Part II: The Mahavagga V-X, The Kullavagga I-III (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 17) NINTH KHANDHAKA. / TENTH KHANDHAKA. ; / X, 4, 5' SCHISMS AMONG THE SAMGUA. 3! I / A'ULLAVAGGA.; lines 14659-14795 confidence: high
A'itta tells of merchants from Dakkhiṇapatha bringing a hen from the East; the hen associates with a crow and bears a chicken whose attempted cock and crow cries come out crossed. He compares Sudhamma's speech to the sound 'tila seed cake.'
A'itta uses the hen, crow, and chicken with mismatched cries as an analogy for Sudhamma's speech about tila seed cake.
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