Motif
Speech brings ruin
speech_brings_ruin
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 SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES. / THE BIRTH STORIES. / INDEX 339 / INTRODUCTION.; lines 476-594 confidence: high
The frightened ass cries out like an ass, and the future Buddha speaks a stanza saying this is not a lion, tiger, or panther, but an ass dressed in a lion's skin.
Both the ass's bray and the tortoise's attempted reply lead immediately to disaster.
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