Motif
Moralized conflict of virtue and vice
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A motif of the Duality and Cosmic Opposition family, within the sub-family Virtue and vice, truth and falsehood, and social reversal. 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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Maha-bharata BOOK XII / ASWA-MEDHA / CONCLUSION / TRANSLATOR'S EPILOGUE; lines 6804-6889 confidence: medium
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 epilogue states that a high moral purpose, the triumph of virtue and subjugation of vice, was woven into the fabric of the epic.
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