Motif
reckoning of unfulfilled perfections
reckoning_of_unfulfilled_perfections
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Moral Causality and Consequence. 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 VII. / THE BODISATS. / TABLE VIII. / THE DISTANT EPOCH.; lines 6593-6700 confidence: medium
Māra reflects that he has followed the Master looking for fault, finds no sin, and sees him as beyond his power. In sorrow, he draws sixteen lines for sixteen thoughts about perfections and extraordinary knowledges he did not attain.
Māra draws sixteen lines while reflecting that he did not attain the perfections and extraordinary knowledges that the Master attained.
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