Motif
concealed pregnancy leading to infant exposure
concealed_pregnancy_leading_to_infant_exposure
A motif of the Miraculous Child and Sacred Birth family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
buddhist
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Vinaya Texts, Part II: The Mahavagga V-X, The Kullavagga I-III (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 17) QO MAHAVAGGA. VI, 25, 2. / SEVENTH KHANDHAKA. / VIII, 12, 2. / VH, 3. THE KATIIINA CEREMONIES. T59; lines 7233-7378 confidence: high
After becoming pregnant, Salavati fears that discovery would ruin her position and orders the door-keeper to admit no men and say she is sick.
Salavati hides her pregnancy to preserve her position and then orders the newborn boy abandoned in a basket on a dust-heap.
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