Motif
fearless holy persons tested by a dangerous animal
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A motif of the Initiation and Transformative Ordeal family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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The Questions of King Milinda, Part I (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 35) BOOK IV. / Book IV. Chapter 2. / Book IV. Chapter 3. / Book IV. Chapter 4.; lines 15530-15643 confidence: medium
Milinda asks Nagasena about the statement attributed to the Blessed One that arahats have laid aside all fear and trembling.
Milinda contrasts the teaching that arahats have laid aside fear with their reported flight when a man-slaying elephant approached the Blessed One.
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