Motif
Prophecy concerning an exceptional figure
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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
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS. / PART I. / PART II. / SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES.; lines 202-273 confidence: medium
Headings include the last Bodisat’s descent from heaven, birth, song of angels, prophecies by Kāḷa Devala and Brāhman priests, ploughing festival, skill and wisdom, four visions, and the birth of the Bodisat’s son.
The headings list prophecies by Kāḷa Devala and by Brāhman priests in the early-life sequence of the last Bodisat.
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