Motif
Embassy before war
embassy_before_war
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Causes of War. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
hindu
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Maha-bharata BOOK VI / GO-HARANA / BOOK VII / UDYOGA; lines 3377-3529 confidence: medium
Krishna asks whether Yudhishthir should seek his right by war or send a virtuous envoy to Duryodhan to request restoration of the kingdom on the Jumna’s shore.
Krishna and Valadeva both frame the sending of an envoy as an alternative or preliminary to open war.
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