batch.motif.buddhist-jataka-birth-stories-rhys-davids-gutenberg-l6593-l6700
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passage_locator:
label: TABLE VII. / THE BODISATS. / TABLE VIII. / THE DISTANT EPOCH.; lines 6593-6700
start: '6593'
end: '6700'
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: After enlightenment, the Master dispels angels’ doubts by rising into the
air and making another appearance like himself. He spends successive weeks near
the throne, the Bo-tree, a jewelled cloister, a house of gems, and the Shepherd’s
Nigrodha-tree, meditating, contemplating omniscience, the Abhidhamma, Truth, and
Nirvāna. Māra laments that he can find no fault in him and draws sixteen lines
representing unachieved perfections and knowledges. Māra’s three daughters attempt
to tempt the Blessed One by appearing in many female forms, but he ignores them
and tells them to depart, declaring that he has put away lust, ill-will, and folly.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Certain angels doubt because Siddhattha remains seated; the Master knows their
thoughts, rises into the air, and makes another appearance like himself.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The Master stands northeast of the throne and spends seven days gazing at
the place where he attained omniscience.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The place of the seven-day gaze becomes known as the Dāgaba of the Steadfast
Gaze.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The Master creates a cloistered walk between the throne and the place where
he had stood, and spends seven days walking in the jewelled cloister.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Angels create a house of gems northwest of the Bo-tree, where the Master sits
cross-legged for a week and thinks out the Abhidhamma Pitaka.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: In the fifth week the Master goes to the Shepherd’s Nigrodha-tree, sits meditating
on the Truth, and enjoys the sweetness of Nirvāna.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: Māra concludes that the Master is beyond his power because he has found no
sin in him.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: Māra draws sixteen lines on the ground while reflecting on perfections and
forms of extraordinary knowledge he did not attain.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: Craving, Discontent, and Lust, the three daughters of Māra, find their father
sad and offer to bring the Master captive by their influence.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:10
text: Māra says his daughters cannot bring the Master under their influence because
he stands firm in faith and is unwavering.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:11
text: The daughters approach the Blessed One and address him as a holy man, but
he gives no attention to their words or appearance.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:12
text: Each daughter assumes the appearance of a hundred women of varied ages and
maternal statuses, and six times they approach the Blessed One as his handmaidens.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:13
text: The passage rejects a reported teaching that the Blessed One commanded the
women to remain elderly with broken teeth and bald heads.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:14
text: The Blessed One tells the daughters to depart and says that he has put away
lust, ill-will, and folly.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: The Master / Blessed One / Siddhattha
description: The enlightened figure who dispels doubts, remains near the Bo-tree
and related sites, meditates, and resists Māra’s daughters.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:8
- ev:11
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Angels
description: Celestial beings who doubt the Master’s lingering and later create
a house of gems near the Bo-tree.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Māra
description: An angelic adversary who has sought fault in the Master, laments his
failure, and draws sixteen lines on the ground.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Craving, Discontent, and Lust
description: The three daughters of Māra, who attempt to bring the Blessed One under
their influence through allurements of passion and varied appearances.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:9
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Abhidhammikas
description: Commentators who give two explanations of the House of Gems.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Some teachers
description: Teachers whose reported claim about the Blessed One commanding the
women’s aged appearance is explicitly rejected in the passage.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
roles:
- id: role:1
label: enlightened meditator and teacher
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The figure is said to have attained omniscience, meditates on Truth and Nirvāna,
thinks out the Abhidhamma, and admonishes Māra’s daughters.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:11
- id: role:2
label: miracle performer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: He rises into the air and makes another appearance like himself to dispel
the angels’ doubts.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:3
label: celestial observers and helpers
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The angels doubt, have their doubts dispelled, and create a house of gems.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: role:4
label: defeated adversary
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Māra has searched for fault in the Master, finds no sin, and says the Master
is beyond his power.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:5
label: tempters
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The daughters offer to bind the Master by the allurements of passion and
assume many forms to tempt him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:9
- id: role:6
label: interpretive voices
assigned_to:
- fig:5
- fig:6
basis: The passage reports interpretive explanations by Abhidhammikas and a teaching
by some teachers that the narrator rejects.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:10
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: throne of omniscience
literal_form: Throne where the Master attained omniscience
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: Dāgaba of the Steadfast Gaze
literal_form: Named spot where the Master gazed for seven days
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: jewelled cloister
literal_form: Jewelled cloistered walk stretching from East to West
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: house of gems
literal_form: House of gems northwest of the Bo-tree
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: Bo-tree
literal_form: Bo-tree near which the Master spends four weeks and near which the
house of gems is created
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: sym:6
label: Shepherd’s Nigrodha-tree
literal_form: Nigrodha-tree where the Master sits meditating on Truth
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:7
label: sixteen lines
literal_form: Sixteen lines drawn by Māra on the ground for sixteen thoughts
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:8
label: multiple female appearances
literal_form: Appearances of virgins, young women, mothers, middle-aged women, and
older women assumed by Māra’s daughters
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Miracle dispels celestial doubt
summary: The angels doubt the Master’s lingering; he knows their thoughts, rises
into the air, and creates another appearance like himself.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Seven-day steadfast gaze
summary: The Master stands northeast of the throne and spends seven days gazing
at the place of his omniscience, which is then named the Dāgaba of the Steadfast
Gaze.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Seven days in the jewelled cloister
summary: The Master creates a cloistered walk between the throne and his standing
place and walks up and down in the jewelled cloister for seven days.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: House of gems and Abhidhamma contemplation
summary: Angels create a house of gems near the Bo-tree, and the Master spends a
week seated cross-legged, thinking out the Abhidhamma Pitaka.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Meditation at the Shepherd’s Nigrodha-tree
summary: The Master goes to the Shepherd’s Nigrodha-tree, sits meditating on Truth,
and enjoys Nirvāna.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Māra’s sixteen lines
summary: Māra laments that the Master is beyond his power and draws sixteen lines
representing perfections and knowledges he did not attain.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:7
label: Daughters of Māra undertake temptation
summary: Craving, Discontent, and Lust find Māra, hear why he is sorrowful, and
declare that they will bring the Master captive through the allurements of passion.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:8
label: Failed allurements before the Blessed One
summary: Māra’s daughters approach the Blessed One, assume many kinds of female
appearances, and repeatedly profess themselves his handmaidens, but he pays them
no attention.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: scene:9
label: Admonition to depart
summary: After rejecting a reported variant, the passage presents the Blessed One
telling the daughters to depart because he has put away lust, ill-will, and folly.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: miraculous aerial manifestation
taxonomy_refs:
- ascent
basis: The Master rises into the air and produces another appearance like himself
to dispel doubt.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage describes a miracle involving rising into the air; the broader
taxonomy label 'ascent' is approximate because this is not framed as a journey
to a higher realm.
- id: motif:2
label: sacred tree as enlightenment locus
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_tree_axis
basis: The Master remains for weeks near the Bo-tree and later meditates under the
Shepherd’s Nigrodha-tree; these tree sites are linked to omniscience, Abhidhamma
contemplation, Truth, and Nirvāna.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage marks trees as sacred or contemplative loci, but it does not
explicitly describe them as an axis or world center.
- id: motif:3
label: contemplative wisdom after awakening
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The Master reflects on the place of omniscience, thinks out the Abhidhamma
Pitaka, meditates on Truth, and is described as sinless and wise in the cited
verses.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:11
confidence: high
cautions: This is an abstract motif family rather than a discrete narrative episode.
- id: motif:4
label: shape-changing temptation by adversary’s daughters
taxonomy_refs:
- shapeshifter
basis: Māra’s daughters assume many female appearances and repeatedly attempt to
tempt the Blessed One, who remains unaffected.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:11
confidence: high
cautions: The daughters change appearance rather than species; the taxonomy ref
is used for deliberate form-assumption.
- id: motif:5
label: failed temptation of the sinless awakened one
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Māra cannot find fault in the Master, and his daughters fail to allure him
because he has put away lust, ill-will, and folly.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:11
confidence: high
cautions: No available taxonomy family exactly names temptation or moral testing,
so no taxonomy ref is assigned.
- id: motif:6
label: reckoning of unfulfilled perfections
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Māra draws sixteen lines while reflecting that he did not attain the perfections
and extraordinary knowledges that the Master attained.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: This is a symbolic accounting action within the passage; no available
taxonomy family precisely matches it.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 6593-6600
quote_or_summary: Angels doubt Siddhattha’s lingering; the Master knows their thoughts,
rises into the air, and performs the miracle of making another appearance like
himself.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short summary used.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 6601-6608
quote_or_summary: The Master stands northeast of the throne, thinks that he attained
omniscience there, gazes at the spot for seven days, and the place becomes the
Dāgaba of the Steadfast Gaze.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short summary used.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 6610-6614
quote_or_summary: The Master creates a cloistered walk between the throne and the
place where he stood, spends seven days walking in a jewelled cloister stretching
east to west, and the place is named the Dāgaba of the Jewelled Cloister.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short summary used.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 6616-6626
quote_or_summary: For the fourth week angels create a house of gems northwest of
the Bo-tree; the Master sits there cross-legged and thinks out the Abhidhamma
Pitaka. Abhidhammikas give two explanations of the House of Gems.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short summary used.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 6628-6630
quote_or_summary: After four weeks near the Bo-tree, the Master goes in the fifth
week to the Shepherd’s Nigrodha-tree, sits meditating on Truth, and enjoys the
sweetness of Nirvāna.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short summary used.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 6632-6654
quote_or_summary: Māra reflects that he has followed the Master looking for fault,
finds no sin, and sees him as beyond his power. In sorrow, he draws sixteen lines
for sixteen thoughts about perfections and extraordinary knowledges he did not
attain.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short summary used.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 6656-6674
quote_or_summary: Craving, Discontent, and Lust, the three daughters of Māra, find
him sorrowful. They offer to subject the Master to their influence and bring him
captive, while Māra says he is unwavering and beyond their power.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short summary used.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 6676-6682
quote_or_summary: The daughters approach the Blessed One, but he pays no attention
to their words and does not look at them, sitting in the joy of Nirvāna with a
mind freed by the extinction of sin.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short summary used.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 6684-6692
quote_or_summary: The daughters decide to tempt him in various forms; each assumes
the appearance of a hundred women of different ages and statuses, and six times
they profess themselves his handmaidens, but he pays no attention.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short summary used.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 6694-6698
quote_or_summary: The passage reports that some teachers say the Blessed One commanded
the women to remain elderly with broken teeth and bald heads, but states this
should not be believed because the Master issues no such commands.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short summary used.
- id: ev:11
type: quote
locator: lines 6700-6712
quote_or_summary: The Blessed One says, “Depart ye! Why strive ye thus?” and declares,
“I have put away lust, have put away ill-will, have put away folly,” followed
by verses asking how the Sinless, Wise One could be allured to a fall.
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.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied passage. Motif taxonomy assignments
are cautious where available labels are broader than the passage’s exact language.
No comparison claims were made because the passage does not itself compare this
episode to another corpus or tradition.
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'
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