Motif
vengeance for insult and prior deceit
vengeance_for_insult_and_prior_deceit
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Vengeance and Blood Guilt. 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 5799-5939 confidence: high
Duryodhan calls Kripa wise but says concord is too late; he cites Yudhishthir's lost throne, Bhima's vow, Arjun's anger over Abhimanyu, Draupadi's insult, Subhadra's mourning, and blood as the answer to wrongs.
Duryodhan and Bhima both present the war and duel as consequences of remembered wrongs: dice-cheating, Draupadi's insult, murders or deaths, and vows.
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