Motif
Holy death by fire
holy_death_by_fire
A motif of the Sacred Fire and Divine Light family, within the sub-family Funerary Fires and Fiery Trials. 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 SRADDHA / BOOK XII / ASWA-MEDHA / CONCLUSION; lines 6719-6801 confidence: high
Dhrita-rashtra, Gandhari, and Pritha are burned to death in a forest conflagration; the passage notes that death by fire is considered holy.
The elders die in a forest conflagration, and the passage explicitly says death by fire is considered holy.
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