Motif
Miraculous healing object at birth
miraculous_healing_object_at_birth
A motif of the Miraculous Child and Sacred Birth family, within the sub-family Birth and Early-Life Omens, Marks, and Tests. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
buddhist
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 TABLE VII. / THE BODISATS. / TABLE VIII. / THE DISTANT EPOCH.; lines 5332-5432 confidence: medium
In the Mahosadha birth, Sakka gives the newborn fine sandal-wood medicine; the child says it is medicine, and the substance is kept in a water-pot and heals the sick.
In the Mahosadha birth, Sakka places medicine in the newborn's hand, and that medicine later heals the sick who come to it.
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