Motif
bride-winning martial contest
bride_winning_martial_contest
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Bride Contest and Suitor Trials. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
hindu
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Maha-bharata BOOK I / ASTRA DARSANA / BOOK II / SWAYAMVARA; lines 602-743 confidence: high
Drupad desires Arjun as husband for his daughter and makes a hard-to-bend bow, a whirling discus, and a distant target; the one who strings the bow and hits the target through the discus wins the bride.
Drupad declares that whoever strings the strong bow and strikes the target through the whirling discus will win the bride.
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