Motif
protective fire responding to a faithful woman's prayer
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A motif of the Sacred Fire and Divine Light family, within the sub-family Purifying, Protective, and Boundary Fires. 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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The Ramayan of Valmiki Canto XLV. The Seven Defeated. / Canto XLVI. The Captains. / Canto XLVII. The Death Of Aksha. / Canto LIII. The Punishment.; lines 47737-47909 confidence: high
Sita is told that the monkey who spoke with her is being displayed with flames around his tail; she goes reverently to the fire and asks it to spare the Vanar if she has kept faith and vows.
Sita invokes her faithfulness and vows before Fire, after which Fire spares Hanuman; Hanuman later reasons that the same fire would spare Sita.
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