batch.motif.buddhist-jataka-birth-stories-rhys-davids-gutenberg-l15559-l15579
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record_id: batch.motif.buddhist-jataka-birth-stories-rhys-davids-gutenberg-l15559-l15579
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
passage_locator:
label: SELECTIONS FROM THE KORAN. / BY EDWARD WILLIAM LANE, / EXTRACT FROM PREFACE.
/ METRICAL TRANSLATIONS FROM SANSKRIT WRITERS.; lines 15559-15579
start: '15559'
end: '15579'
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 is a bibliographic advertisement for J. Muir's metrical translations
from Sanskrit writers, describing contents, publication history, a review notice,
and format/price.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The passage presents the title 'Metrical Translations from Sanskrit Writers'
and describes the work as including an introduction, prose versions, and parallel
passages from classical authors.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The named author is J. Muir, with listed academic and official titles.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The notice states that the volume includes material from an earlier work on
religious and moral sentiments rendered from Sanskrit writers, later printed collections,
and pieces from the author's Original Sanskrit Texts.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: A review excerpt describes the volume as illustrating religious and moral
sentiments and legendary lore of Sanskrit writers.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: 'The notice gives physical and pricing information: post 8vo, vi plus 368
pages, cloth, price 14 shillings.'
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
figures: []
roles: []
symbols: []
scenes: []
candidate_motifs: []
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: 15559-15565
quote_or_summary: The notice gives the title 'Metrical Translations from Sanskrit
Writers,' says the work includes an introduction, prose versions, and parallel
passages from classical authors, and names J. Muir as author.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summary provided.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: 15566-15573
quote_or_summary: The notice describes the volume as containing an earlier collection
on religious and moral sentiments from Sanskrit writers, later printed collections,
and reprinted metrical pieces from the author's Original Sanskrit Texts.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summary provided.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: 15575-15577
quote_or_summary: A review excerpt from the Edinburgh Daily Review praises the volume
as illustrating religious and moral sentiments and legendary lore of Sanskrit
writers.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summary provided.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: '15579'
quote_or_summary: 'The notice lists the format and price: post 8vo, vi plus 368
pages, cloth, price 14 shillings.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summary provided.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: high
comparison_claims: high
notes: The passage is a publication notice rather than a narrative or doctrinal
mythic passage; no specific motif, symbol, scene, or comparison is supported by
the supplied text.
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 candidate mythology motifs were extracted because the passage contains only bibliographic and promotional information.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:buddhist-jataka-birth-stories-rhys-davids-gutenberg__l15559-l15579
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