Motif
post-battle funeral lament by bereaved women
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A motif of the Lament, Mourning, and Tragic Recognition family, within the sub-family Mourning Ritual and Funerary Practice. 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 X / KARNA-BADHA / BOOK XI / SRADDHA; lines 5963-6113 confidence: high
Book XI is titled Sraddha, or Funeral Rites; Duryodhan's death concludes the war and is followed by women's lamentation and funerals of deceased warriors.
The passage centers on women and royal kin going to the battlefield after Duryodhan's death to lament sons, fathers, brothers, husbands, and fallen warriors before funerary rites.
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