Motif
Appetite leads to captivity or control
appetite_leads_to_captivity_or_control
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Justice, Mercy, and Judicial Procedure. 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 END OF THE STORY ABOUT TRUE DIVINITY. / END OF THE STORY ON A HAPPY LIFE. / END OF THE STORY OF THE BANYAN DEER. / END OF THE STORY OF THE DART OF LOVE.; lines 9951-9977 confidence: high
The king descends, sees the trembling creature, and says that although an antelope normally avoids places where it has seen men or been frightened, this one has come there because it is bound by the lust of taste.
The antelope enters the dangerous human space because of lust of taste, and the stanza says taste caused the wild deer to fall under Sanjaya's control.
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