Motif
Prior-birth Bodhisatta receives prophecy of future Buddhahood
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A motif of the Prophecy and Systematic Divination family, within the sub-family Personal Destiny and Kinship Prophecies. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 TABLE VII. / THE BODISATS. / TABLE VIII. / THE DISTANT EPOCH.; lines 4522-4607 confidence: high
Sumana appears after Mangala and has three assemblies. The Bodhisatta is the Nāga king Atula, leaves the Nāga world with kinsmen, offers celestial music, gives garments of fine cloth, is established in the Three Refuges, and is foretold to become a Buddha. Sumana’s details include the Golden Mountain assembly and Nāga Bodhi-tree.
Across several entries, the Bodhisatta appears in a prior form, performs an act of devotion or giving, and is told by a past Buddha that he will become a Buddha.
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