Motif
divine sustenance during ordeal
divine_sustenance_during_ordeal
A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance family, within the sub-family Healing and Provision. 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 6059-6161 confidence: high
The Bodisat performs uttermost penance with one seed, one grain, or complete fasting; angels infuse sap of life; he becomes skeletal and dark, loses the Thirty-two signs, suffers pain, faints, and falls.
Angels gather sap of life and infuse it into the fasting Bodisat through his skin.
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