Motif
Beloved ruler as life-root of the people
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A motif of the Royal Legitimacy and Sacred Kingship family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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hindu
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The Ramayan of Valmiki Canto XXII. Lakshman Calmed. / Canto XXVIII. The Dangers Of The Wood. / Canto XXX. The Triumph Of Love. / Canto XXXII. The Gift Of The Treasures.; lines 14936-15107 confidence: high
The crowd describes shared grief with images of dry streams and a tree whose root is cut, then calls Rāma the root and themselves branches, blossom, fruit, and leaf.
The crowd compares Rāma to the root of a tree and themselves to branches, blossom, fruit, and leaf, making public grief depend on his condition.
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