Motif
Final duel of life-long rivals
final_duel_of_life_long_rivals
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Champion Combat and Duel. 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 IX / DRONA-BADHA / BOOK X / KARNA-BADHA; lines 5654-5797 confidence: high
Arjun and Karna are called life-long rivals; they fight until one must fall, exchanging arrows likened to floods and hissing serpents.
Arjun and Karna are explicitly described as life-long rivals who meet not to part until one is slain.
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