Motif
Vengeance for a slain son or youth
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A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Vengeance and Blood Feud. 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 IX / DRONA-BADHA / BOOK X / KARNA-BADHA; lines 5654-5797 confidence: high
Krishna answers Karna by recalling Sakuni's robbery of Yudhishthir, insults to Draupadi, refusal of justice after exile, and the killing of Abhimanyu; he says death has come in the shape of Arjun.
Arjun's memory of Abhimanyu, described as a murdered youthful hero, kindles his anger before he kills Karna.
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