Motif
wrathful envoy challenges a pleasure-bound ruler
wrathful_envoy_challenges_a_pleasure_bound_ruler
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Rejected Warner and Communal Destruction. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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The Ramayan of Valmiki Canto XIV. The Challenge. / Canto XXVI. The Coronation. / Canto XXVIII. The Rains. / Canto XXXI. The Envoy.; lines 41805-41957 confidence: high
Hearing and seeing the palace ease, Lakshman feels rage and shame, draws his bowstring until it clangs through the sky, then withdraws modestly from the women’s view while angry for Rama.
Lakshman arrives in anger, sounds his bowstring, and rebukes Sugriva for spending days in pleasure while neglecting duty and friends.
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