Motif
Divine nourishment of a sacred body
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A motif of the Sacred Substance and Divine Intoxication 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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The Questions of King Milinda, Part II (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 36) THE QUESTIONS / KING MI LIN DA. / BOOK IV. / Chapter 5.; lines 2240-2384 confidence: high
The king asks Nagasena whether the gods infused the Sap of Life from heaven into the Tathagata's bowl at every meal or only into tender boar's flesh and rice porridge boiled in milk.
Gods from heaven infuse the Sap of Life into every morsel of the Tathagata's food, refreshing his body.
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