Motif
blood pollution of a sacred hermitage
blood_pollution_of_a_sacred_hermitage
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Purification and Pollution. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
hindu
-
The Ramayan of Valmiki BOOK IV. / Canto V. The League. / Canto VI. The Tokens. / Canto XI. Dundubhi.; lines 38645-38760 confidence: high
Báli lifts the corpse and hurls it a full league away; blood drops from it are blown by the wind and fall by Saint Matanga’s hermit cell.
Blood from the demon’s hurled corpse falls near Matanga’s hermit cell, defiles the hermitage, and angers the sage.
read in the book →