Motif
Great war as center of a legendary epic cycle
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A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Host Battle and Siege. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
hindu
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Maha-bharata BOOK XII / ASWA-MEDHA / CONCLUSION / TRANSLATOR'S EPILOGUE; lines 6804-6889 confidence: high
The war is believed to belong to the thirteenth or fourteenth century BCE; its incidents were sung by bards and minstrels, became a cycle of legends, songs, and poems, were shaped into the Great Bharata epic, and were moralized as virtue overcoming vice.
The Maha-bharata war is described as becoming the centre of a cycle of legends, songs, and poems, later cast into narrative epic form.
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