Motif
divine guardianship of the chosen child and mother
divine_guardianship_of_the_chosen_child_and_mother
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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buddhist
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 TABLE VII. / THE BODISATS. / TABLE VIII. / THE DISTANT EPOCH.; lines 5332-5432 confidence: medium
From incarnation, four sword-bearing angels guard the future Buddha and his mother; the mother sees the child clearly, and seven days after his birth she dies and is reborn in the City of Delight.
Four sword-bearing angels stand guard over the Bodisat and his mother from the moment of incarnation.
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