Motif
Buried ancient narrative restored
buried_ancient_narrative_restored
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
hindu
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Maha-bharata BOOK XII / ASWA-MEDHA / CONCLUSION / TRANSLATOR'S EPILOGUE; lines 6891-6967 confidence: medium
The old Epic is expanded, but the real Epic's main incidents and characters remain discernible like recovered marble figures; the speaker hopes to 'exhume this buried Epic' and restore it.
The speaker frames the translation project as exhuming a buried Epic from episodical matter and restoring it to the modern world.
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