Motif
recovery of a buried ancient work
recovery_of_a_buried_ancient_work
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Revelation and Scripture. 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 XII / ASWA-MEDHA / CONCLUSION / TRANSLATOR'S EPILOGUE; lines 6891-6967 confidence: medium
The old Epic has been expanded, but its leading incidents and characters remain discernible, like marble figures recovered from ruins of an ancient world.
The passage repeatedly frames the translator's project as exhuming a buried Epic from an overlying mass of episodical matter and restoring it to the modern world.
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