Motif
fiery weapon neutralized by hero’s arrows
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A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Cosmic and Supernatural Combat. 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 XXIII. The Omens. / Canto XXIV. The Host In Sight. / Canto XXV. The Battle. / Canto XXVIII. Khara Dismounted.; lines 30099-30272 confidence: high
Khara looses his “mighty mace ringed round with gold”; it flies like a red bolt alive with fire, sending fiery flashes and scorching trees and shrubs.
Khara’s mace flies with fiery flashes and scorches vegetation, but Rāma cleaves it with arrows and renders it harmless.
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