Motif
Elevated palace-city with celestial imagery
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A motif of the World Axis and Sacred Center family, within the sub-family Temples, Cities, and Sacred Foundations. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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hindu
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The Ramayan of Valmiki Canto LXV. The Council. / BOOK V.(787) / Canto III. The Guardian Goddess. / Canto IV. Within The City.; lines 45200-45277 confidence: medium
“The guardian goddess thus subdued, / The Vánar chief his way pursued” and reached a broad imperial street with flowers, high houses, tabors, laughter, and shouts.
The city is compared to a fairer sky with cloud-like houses, and Rávaṇ’s palace rises on a mountain crest above the rest.
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