Motif
restoration of stolen property through adjudication
restoration_of_stolen_property_through_adjudication
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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1 traditions
buddhist
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More Jataka Tales THE HAWKS AND THEIR FRIENDS / THE BRAVE LITTLE BOWMAN / THE FOOLHARDY WOLF / THE STOLEN PLOW; lines 1172-1239 confidence: medium
The judge tells the town trader to give back the plow and says the village trader will give the son back; by night-time each has recovered what was missing.
The judge orders the town trader to return the plow and the village trader to return the son, restoring both losses by the end of the tale.
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