Motif
Cosmic response to the future Buddha’s wish
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A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance family, within the sub-family Saintly Miracle and Holy Power. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 TABLE VII. / THE BODISATS. / TABLE VIII. / THE DISTANT EPOCH.; lines 5864-5956 confidence: medium
The Bodisat leaves the city on the full-moon day of Āsāḷhi; when he wishes to gaze back, the earth revolves like a potter’s wheel, and a spot is fixed for the Kanthaka-Nivattana Cetiya.
When the Bodisat wishes to gaze on the city, the earth revolves like a potter’s wheel and a shrine-site is fixed at the place.
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