Motif
Valuable object unrecognized by its owners
valuable_object_unrecognized_by_its_owners
A motif of the Sacred Treasures and Power Objects family, within the sub-family Hidden Treasures and Their Recovery. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
buddhist
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Jataka tales PART I / PART II / HOW THE TURTLE SAVED HIS OWN LIFE / THE MERCHANT OF SERI; lines 402-493 confidence: high
A poor old woman and her granddaughter live in a house. Their family once had wealth, and they retain an old bowl that the grandmother does not know is gold.
The old woman keeps the bowl as an ordinary household object and does not know it is gold until the merchants assess it.
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