batch.motif.buddhist-jataka-birth-stories-rhys-davids-gutenberg-l13610-l13947
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source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
passage_locator:
label: END OF THE STORY OF THE BULL WHO WON THE BET. / END OF THE STORY OF THE WISE
BIRD AND THE FOOLS. / END OF BOOK I. CHAPTER IV. / INDEX.; lines 13610-13947
start: '13610'
end: '13947'
translation: Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: The passage closes Book I, Chapter IV and begins an index. The index explains
its reference system and Pāli pronunciation guide, then lists names, Jātaka titles,
persons, places, animals, objects, and topics with page or story-number references.
Several entries are terse subject labels for animal tales, moral topics, Buddhist
figures, cross-cultural story traditions, and narrative objects.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The passage marks the end of Book I, Chapter IV and begins an index.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The index states that Jātaka names published in Fausböll’s text are included
by story number, while other references are to pages in the volume.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The index provides a practical pronunciation guide for Pāli vowels, consonants,
and accent placement.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The index includes entries for Buddhist figures and categories including former
Buddhas, Gotama the Buddha, Bodisats, Arahats, Brāhmans, and angels.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: obs:5
text: The index includes animal-tale entries involving antelopes, birds, bulls,
crows, cranes, a crab, a crocodile image, an ass, a goat, and a jackal.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: obs:6
text: The index includes moral or social topic entries such as reverence to age,
betting, begging for food, charity, caste, credulity, and city cheats and country
fools.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:17
- id: obs:7
text: The index includes cross-cultural literary references such as Æsop, Arabian
Nights, Arabian story-books, Babrius, Barlaam and Josaphat, Bidpai, and a Hebrew
storybook author.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- ev:19
- ev:20
- id: obs:8
text: The index lists objects and ritual or sacred structures including a begging
bowl, a wishing cup, brass ornaments and water-pots, bells, and several dāgabas.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:21
- ev:22
- ev:23
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Gotama the Buddha
description: Listed in the index as the subject of a life section, with pages 60-130
and date of death reference.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Former Buddhas
description: Listed as a category in the Buddha index entry, followed by named Buddhas
such as Dīpaŋkara, Kondañña, Maŋgala, and others.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Bodisats
description: Listed as an index entry and also associated with specific figures
such as Ajita, Arindama, Atideva, and Atula.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:24
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Arahats
description: Listed with notes on outward signs, supposed unconsciousness, and indifference
to worldly things.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Angels
description: Listed with actions including opening the gate for Gotama, four guardian
angels, and foolish doubt regarding the Buddha.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Bull
description: Appears in index entries for a bull who lost a bet, a bull who earned
wages, Big-red the ox, and Blackie the old woman’s bull.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Birds
description: Appear in index entries for bird-catching, birds and the burning tree,
crows and owls, crow and fox, crow and jackal, quail and partridge cross-references,
and the wise-bird label in the passage locator.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:10
- ev:13
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Crane
description: Appears in index entries for a cruel crane outwitted and a good crane
with live fish.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: City cheats and country fools
description: Listed as an index topic with a page reference.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
roles:
- id: role:1
label: Buddha figure
assigned_to:
- fig:1
- fig:2
basis: The index explicitly groups Gotama and former Buddhas under the Buddha entry.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:2
label: Bodisat figure
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The passage lists Bodisats and names several figures as Brāhman or king and
Bodisat.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:24
- id: role:3
label: Renunciant or perfected disciple
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The Arahats entry describes outward signs and indifference to worldly things.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:4
label: Supernatural attendants or guardians
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The angels entry states that angels open the gate for Gotama and includes
four guardian angels.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:5
label: Animal-tale figure
assigned_to:
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
basis: The index includes animal entries attached to tale labels and story topics.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:13
- id: role:6
label: Social contrast figures
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The index entry contrasts city cheats with country fools.
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: Tree
literal_form: burning tree
associated_figures:
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:2
label: Begging bowl
literal_form: the Buddha’s begging bowl
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:21
- id: sym:3
label: Wishing cup
literal_form: cup, the wishing
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:22
- id: sym:4
label: Water-pots
literal_form: brass ornaments and water-pots
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:23
- id: sym:5
label: Dāgabas
literal_form: Dāgaba of the Diadem, of Kanthaka’s Staying, of the Steadfast Gaze,
of the Jewelled Cloister, and of the Hair-relics
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:23
- id: sym:6
label: Bells
literal_form: bells
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:23
- id: sym:7
label: Golden cucumbers
literal_form: the golden cucumbers
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:25
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Index introduction
summary: The passage explains what the index includes and how its references work.
figure_refs: []
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Pāli pronunciation guide
summary: The passage gives a rough practical guide to pronouncing Pāli vowels, consonants,
and accent.
figure_refs: []
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Indexed Buddhist figures
summary: The index lists Buddhas, Bodisats, Arahats, angels, and related Buddhist
persons or categories.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:21
- ev:23
- id: scene:4
label: Indexed animal tales
summary: The index lists several animal-centered tale topics, including bulls, birds,
antelopes, crows, cranes, a crab, and other animals.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: scene:5
label: Indexed moral and social topics
summary: The index lists topics such as reverence to age, betting, charity, credulity,
and city cheats and country fools.
figure_refs:
- fig:9
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:17
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Wisdom and folly in animal or social tales
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The passage locator names a wise bird and fools, while the index includes
entries such as a wily antelope, a greedy antelope, a cruel crane outwitted, foolish
angels, city cheats and country fools, and credulity as a sin.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
- ev:11
- ev:16
- ev:17
- ev:26
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage is an index rather than a full narrative; the motif is inferred
from terse labels and the locator, not from a complete story episode.
- id: motif:2
label: Betting and economic testing
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The index lists betting, a Brāhman and his bet, a bull who lost a bet, and
a bull who earned wages; the locator also refers to the story of the bull who
won the bet.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:15
- ev:26
confidence: medium
cautions: The index gives only topic labels and references; it does not narrate
the bet or its outcome in this excerpt.
- id: motif:3
label: Animal trickery and outwitting
taxonomy_refs:
- trickster_boundary
basis: The index includes animal tale labels involving a wily antelope, crow and
fox, crow and jackal, a cruel crane outwitted, and city cheats and country fools.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:13
- ev:17
confidence: low
cautions: The taxonomy link is cautious because the index does not state a full
trickster role or boundary-crossing episode.
- id: motif:4
label: Sacred Buddhist lineage and exemplars
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The index lists former Buddhas, Gotama the Buddha, Bodisats, Arahats, and
named Buddhist disciples, presenting a catalogue of exemplary Buddhist figures.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: low
cautions: This is an index arrangement, not a narrative motif sequence; the wisdom
taxonomy reference is broad.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 13610-13612
quote_or_summary: "“END OF BOOK I. CHAPTER IV. / INDEX.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 13614-13619
quote_or_summary: The index introduction says names in prior tables are omitted,
Jātaka names published in Fausböll’s text are included by story number, and other
references are to pages in the volume.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 13621-13625
quote_or_summary: 'The passage gives a rough practical rule for Pāli pronunciation:
vowels as in Italian, consonants mostly as in English with specified exceptions,
and accent on the long syllable.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 13759-13790
quote_or_summary: The Buddha entry lists former Buddhas, including Dīpaŋkara and
others, and Gotama the Buddha with life and death references.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 13659-13662
quote_or_summary: The angels entry mentions angels opening the gate for Gotama,
four guardian angels, and angels who foolishly doubt regarding the Buddha.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 13743-13745 and 13651, 13698, 13714, 13730
quote_or_summary: The index lists Bodisat-related entries, including Bodisats as
a category and named figures described as Brāhman or king and Bodisat.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 13689-13692
quote_or_summary: The Arahats entry lists outward signs, supposed unconsciousness,
and indifference to worldly things.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 13726-13728
quote_or_summary: The index lists bird-catching, birds and the burning tree, and
a cross-reference to birds such as quail and partridge.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 13791-13795, 13737, 13794
quote_or_summary: The index lists a bull who lost a bet, a bull who earned wages,
Big-red as an ox, and Blackie as the old woman’s bull.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 13663-13664 and 13824-13826
quote_or_summary: The index lists the greedy antelope, the wily antelope, crow and
fox, crow and jackal, and crows and owls in feud.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 13815-13816
quote_or_summary: The index lists a cruel crane outwitted and a good crane with
live fish.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: lines 13814 and 13827
quote_or_summary: The index lists a crab with a famous grip and crocodiles in a
drop of water.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: lines 13700, 13754, 13824-13826
quote_or_summary: The index includes animal tale labels such as ass in the lion’s
skin, Brāhman and goat, crow and fox, crow and jackal, and crows and owls.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: line 13647
quote_or_summary: The index lists age and the virtue of reverence to age.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: lines 13731, 13753-13754
quote_or_summary: The index lists betting and a Brāhman and his bet.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: lines 13702, 13801, 13820
quote_or_summary: The index lists begging for food, charity and its power, and credulity
as a sin.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:17
type: quote
locator: line 13810
quote_or_summary: "“City cheats and country fools, 316”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used.
- id: ev:18
type: summary
locator: lines 13645, 13674-13675
quote_or_summary: The index lists Æsop, Arabian Nights, and Arabian story-books.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:19
type: summary
locator: lines 13701, 13712, 13733
quote_or_summary: The index lists Barlaam and Josaphat, Babrius the Greek fabulist,
and Berachia as author of a Hebrew storybook.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:20
type: summary
locator: lines 13733-13736, 13793
quote_or_summary: The index lists Bidpai the Bactrian fabulist and Bodisat as Josaphat.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:21
type: summary
locator: line 13748
quote_or_summary: The index lists the Buddha’s begging bowl with page references.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:22
type: summary
locator: line 13829
quote_or_summary: The index lists a wishing cup.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:23
type: summary
locator: lines 13755, 13703, 13834-13838
quote_or_summary: The index lists brass ornaments and water-pots, bells, and several
named dāgabas including the Dāgaba of the Diadem and of the Hair-relics.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:24
type: summary
locator: lines 13651, 13698, 13714, 13730
quote_or_summary: The index identifies Ajita, Arindama, Atideva, and Atula as figures
associated with the Bodisat designation.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:25
type: summary
locator: line 13828
quote_or_summary: The index lists golden cucumbers.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:26
type: citation
locator: passage label supplied for lines 13610-13947
quote_or_summary: The passage label supplied in the record identifies preceding
closures as the story of the bull who won the bet and the story of the wise bird
and the fools.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Metadata supplied with extraction request; cited, not quoted from passage
body.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: low
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: The extractable content is chiefly an index rather than a narrative passage.
Figures, symbols, and motifs are based on index headings and supplied locator
labels, so motif interpretation remains tentative.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
No comparison claims were added because the passage lists cross-cultural references but does not itself establish a specific motif comparison in this excerpt.
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