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passage_locator:
label: SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES. / THE BIRTH STORIES. / INDEX 339
/ INTRODUCTION.; lines 740-872
start: '740'
end: '872'
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 first concludes a birth-story episode in which the future
Buddha identifies the true mother of a disputed child and exposes the other claimant
as a Yakshiṇī who intended to eat the child. The editor then notes a similar judgment
story attributed to Solomon. A second Jātaka begins: Sakka, reborn from one of
four ascetic brothers, visits hermits in the Himalayas and gives them magical
objects. The narrative then follows a boar who finds a flying gem, lives beneath
an Udumbara-tree on an ocean island, and loses the gem to an expelled man shipwrecked
there, who kills and eats the boar and later reaches a hermitage by the gem’s
power.'
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The future Buddha asks bystanders which claimant is likely to be the mother
and uses the fact that one woman let go of the child as evidence of maternity.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The future Buddha identifies the other claimant as a Yakshiṇī who took the
child in order to eat him.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The future Buddha says he recognized the Yakshiṇī because her eyes did not
wink, were red, and because she lacked fear and pity.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The Yakshiṇī admits that she is a Yakshiṇī and that she intended to eat the
child.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The future Buddha rebukes the Yakshiṇī, lays a vow on her to keep the Five
Commandments, and lets her go.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The mother praises the future Buddha as a great physician and departs with
her child clasped to her bosom.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: The passage explicitly says that a similar judgment is attributed to Solomon
in the Hebrew Book of Kings and notes that the Book of Kings is older than the
time of Gotama.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: Four Brahman brothers become ascetics and establish huts at equal distances
in the Himalayan region.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: The eldest brother dies and is reborn as the god Sakka, who periodically visits
and helps the remaining hermits.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: Sakka gives one hermit a double-edged hatchet that can fetch firewood and
make fire when commanded.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: Sakka gives a second hermit a drum with one side that makes enemies flee and
another side that makes them friendly and brings an army around the user.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: Sakka gives a third hermit a milk-bowl that, when turned over with a wish,
can become a great river powerful enough to take a kingdom and give it to the
user.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:13
text: A wild boar finds a magical gem, holds it in his mouth, rises into the air,
and travels to an island in the ocean.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:14
text: The boar settles under an Udumbara-tree and falls asleep with the gem placed
before him.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:15
text: An expelled man becomes a ship servant, survives a wreck by means of a plank,
reaches the island, and steals the gem from the sleeping boar.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:16
text: After taking the gem, the man rises into the air, concludes that the boar’s
sky-walking came from the gem, and plans to kill and eat the boar.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: obs:17
text: The man drops a twig on the boar; the boar panics, sees him in the tree, dashes
his head against the tree, and dies.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: obs:18
text: The man descends, cooks and eats the boar, flies away, reaches a Himalayan
hermitage, and learns of the hatchet’s magical power.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: future Buddha
description: A wise adjudicator who questions the bystanders, identifies the true
mother, exposes the Yakshiṇī, rebukes her, imposes the Five Commandments, and
releases her.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: bystanders
description: People questioned by the future Buddha who answer that mothers’ hearts
are tender and that the woman who let go is the mother.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: true mother of the child
description: The woman who lets go of the child and later leaves with the child
clasped to her bosom.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Yakshiṇī
description: The false claimant who took the child to eat him; she has red, unwinking
eyes and lacks fear and pity.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: child
description: A babe disputed between the true mother and the Yakshiṇī and saved
from being eaten.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Solomon
description: A figure in a Hebrew story in the Book of Kings to whom a similar judgment
is attributed by the passage.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Brahma-datta
description: King reigning in Benāres at the beginning of the Dadhi-vāhana Jātaka
setting.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: four Brahman brothers
description: Four brothers from Brahma-datta’s kingdom who devote themselves to
ascetic life in the Himalayan region.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Sakka
description: The eldest brother reborn as the god Sakka, who periodically helps
the hermits and gives magical objects.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: first hermit visited by Sakka
description: A hermit suffering from jaundice who asks for fire and receives the
magical hatchet.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: second hermit visited by Sakka
description: A hermit troubled by elephants who receives a magical drum.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: third hermit visited by Sakka
description: A hermit affected with jaundice who asks for sour milk and receives
a magical milk-bowl.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: fig:13
name_or_label: wild boar
description: A boar who finds a magical gem, flies to an ocean island, lives under
an Udumbara-tree, and dies after losing the gem.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:14
- ev:17
- id: fig:14
name_or_label: expelled man from the Land of Kāsi
description: A man expelled by his parents, shipwrecked while serving sailors, who
reaches the island, steals the gem, kills and eats the boar, and flies to a hermitage.
role_refs:
- role:13
- role:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:18
roles:
- id: role:1
label: wise judge
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: He questions the onlookers, distinguishes the true mother, and identifies
the false claimant.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:2
label: moral instructor
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: He rebukes the Yakshiṇī and imposes a vow to keep the Five Commandments.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:3
label: public witnesses
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: They answer the future Buddha’s questions during the adjudication.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:4
label: compassionate mother
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: She lets go of the child and later carries the child away clasped to her
bosom.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- id: role:5
label: child-stealing devourer
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: She admits she is a Yakshiṇī and says she took the child to eat him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: role:6
label: threatened child
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The child is the object of the dispute and the Yakshiṇī’s intended victim.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: role:7
label: comparative judge figure
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The passage names Solomon as the figure to whom a similar Hebrew judgment
is attributed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:8
label: setting king
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The tale begins during his reign in Benāres.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:9
label: ascetic brothers
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: They devote themselves to ascetic life and build huts in the Himalayas.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:10
label: divine helper and giver
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Sakka visits the hermits and gives them magical objects suited to their needs.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: role:11
label: recipient hermit
assigned_to:
- fig:10
- fig:11
- fig:12
basis: Each hermit states a need or trouble and receives a magical object from Sakka.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: role:12
label: animal possessor of magic object
assigned_to:
- fig:13
basis: The boar seizes the magical gem, flies by its power, and settles on the island.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:14
- id: role:13
label: shipwreck survivor
assigned_to:
- fig:14
basis: He survives a shipwreck with the help of a plank and reaches the island.
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: role:14
label: opportunistic taker of magic object
assigned_to:
- fig:14
basis: He steals the gem from the sleeping boar and uses it to fly away after killing
and eating the boar.
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:18
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: disputed child
literal_form: child or babe
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: sym:2
label: unwinking red eyes
literal_form: red eyes that do not wink
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: Five Commandments vow
literal_form: vow to keep the Five Commandments
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: double-edged magical hatchet
literal_form: double-edged hatchet that fetches firewood and makes fire
associated_figures:
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:14
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:18
- id: sym:5
label: magical drum
literal_form: drum whose two sides repel enemies or make them friendly with an army
associated_figures:
- fig:9
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: sym:6
label: magical milk-bowl
literal_form: milk-bowl that can become a great river when turned over with a wish
associated_figures:
- fig:9
- fig:12
taxonomy_refs:
- milk
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: sym:7
label: magical gem
literal_form: gem of magical power enabling flight through the air
associated_figures:
- fig:13
- fig:14
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:15
- ev:16
- id: sym:8
label: Udumbara-tree
literal_form: tree under which the boar lives and sleeps
associated_figures:
- fig:13
- fig:14
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:17
- id: sym:9
label: ocean island
literal_form: island in the midst of the ocean
associated_figures:
- fig:13
- fig:14
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:15
- id: sym:10
label: shipwreck plank
literal_form: plank used to survive the shipwreck
associated_figures:
- fig:14
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Judgment of the disputed child
summary: The future Buddha questions bystanders about maternal tenderness, determines
that the woman who let go is the mother, and exposes the other claimant as a Yakshiṇī
intending to eat the child.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:2
label: Rebuke and release of the Yakshiṇī
summary: The future Buddha rebukes the Yakshiṇī for continued sin, imposes a vow
of the Five Commandments, releases her, and the mother departs praising him with
the child.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:3
label: Editorial comparison with Solomon
summary: The passage notes that a similar judgment story is attributed to Solomon
in the Hebrew Book of Kings and raises the question of connection between the
stories.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:4
label: Sakka gives miraculous objects to hermits
summary: In the Himalayan setting, Sakka visits the hermits and gives them a hatchet
that makes fire, a drum that controls enemies, and a milk-bowl that can pour out
a great river.
figure_refs:
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:11
- fig:12
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: scene:5
label: Boar obtains and uses the flying gem
summary: A wild boar finds a magical gem, flies by its power to an ocean island,
and settles beneath an Udumbara-tree.
figure_refs:
- fig:13
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
- sym:8
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:14
- id: scene:6
label: Shipwrecked man steals the gem and kills the boar
summary: An expelled man survives a shipwreck, reaches the island, takes the gem
from the sleeping boar, uses it to rise into the air, causes the boar’s death,
eats him, and flies to a Himalayan hermitage.
figure_refs:
- fig:10
- fig:13
- fig:14
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:7
- sym:8
- sym:9
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:17
- ev:18
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: true mother revealed by compassionate relinquishment
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The future Buddha infers maternity from the claimant who lets go of the child
rather than harm him, while the false claimant is exposed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: The available taxonomy contains only a broad wisdom category; the more
specific judgment motif is described in the passage but has no supplied taxonomy
ID.
- id: motif:2
label: demonic child-stealer exposed by bodily signs
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The false claimant is revealed as a Yakshiṇī who intended to eat the child;
her red unwinking eyes and lack of fear or pity mark her identity.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage gives the recognition signs, but no supplied taxonomy reference
directly covers Yakshiṇī or child-devouring demon motifs.
- id: motif:3
label: moral conversion or restraint of a dangerous being by vows
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: After exposing the Yakshiṇī, the future Buddha rebukes her, imposes the Five
Commandments, and releases her.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The term conversion is interpretive; the literal passage states that a
vow is laid on her and she is let go.
- id: motif:4
label: divine donor gives need-answering magical objects
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: Sakka visits ascetic hermits and gives them a hatchet, drum, and milk-bowl,
each with miraculous powers addressing stated needs or troubles.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
confidence: medium
cautions: The sacred_exchange taxonomy is only a broad fit; the passage emphasizes
gifts and miraculous objects rather than a formal exchange.
- id: motif:5
label: miraculous object enabling flight
taxonomy_refs:
- ascent
basis: The boar rises into the air through the magical gem, and the man later uses
the same gem to rise into the air and fly away.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:16
- ev:18
confidence: high
cautions: The taxonomy reference ascent is broad; the passage concerns magical aerial
travel rather than spiritual ascent.
- id: motif:6
label: shipwrecked outsider acquires a magical object on an island
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The expelled man survives a shipwreck, reaches the island, finds the sleeping
boar, and steals the magical gem.
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- ev:16
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage supports the sequence, but no direct supplied taxonomy reference
covers shipwreck, island acquisition, or theft of a magical object.
- id: motif:7
label: animal possessor loses magic object to human trickery
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The boar possesses the gem and uses its power; the man steals it, tricks
the boar from the tree, and the boar dies.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
- ev:17
confidence: medium
cautions: The human trickery is inferred from the man’s stealth and plan; the passage
does not name him a trickster.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage itself states that the judgment over the disputed child is similar
to a Hebrew story attributed to Solomon in the Book of Kings.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Solomon’s judgment in the Hebrew Book of Kings
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:1
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The passage raises but does not settle the question of historical connection
between the Buddhist and Hebrew stories.
- id: claim:2
claim: The passage notes that the Book of Kings is more than a century older than
the time of Gotama, but it only says the connection between the two stories will
be considered elsewhere.
claim_level: historical_contact
target: possible connection between the Jātaka judgment and the Hebrew Solomon judgment
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: uncertain
limitations: The passage provides no direct evidence of transmission, borrowing,
or common inheritance; it only flags a chronological and thematic comparison.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 740-752
quote_or_summary: The future Buddha asks which hearts are tender to babes and whether
the mother is the woman holding the child or the woman who let go; the bystanders
answer that the one who let go is the mother.
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:2
type: quote
locator: lines 754-756
quote_or_summary: "“Verily this is a Yakshiṇī, who took the child to eat it.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 758-761
quote_or_summary: The future Buddha explains that he knew because the claimant’s
eyes did not wink, were red, and because she had no fear or pity.
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 763-771
quote_or_summary: When questioned, the claimant says she is a Yakshiṇī and that
she took the child because she intended to eat him.
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 773-776
quote_or_summary: The future Buddha rebukes the Yakshiṇī, says her birth as a Yakshiṇī
resulted from former sins, lays a vow on her to keep the Five Commandments, and
lets her go.
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 778-780
quote_or_summary: The child’s mother praises the future Buddha as Great Physician
and leaves with her babe clasped to her bosom.
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 784-787
quote_or_summary: The passage says a Hebrew story with a similar judgment is attributed
to Solomon in the Book of Kings, which is more than a century older than Gotama,
and says the connection will be considered below.
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 795-799
quote_or_summary: During Brahma-datta’s reign in Benāres, four Brahman brothers
become ascetics and build huts at equal distances in the Himalayan region.
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 801-804
quote_or_summary: The eldest brother dies and is reborn as Sakka, who becomes aware
of this and visits the others every seven or eight days to help them.
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 804-816
quote_or_summary: A jaundiced hermit asks Sakka for fire; Sakka gives him a double-edged
hatchet and says that when released with a command it will fetch firewood and
make fire.
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 818-826
quote_or_summary: The second hermit is troubled by elephants; Sakka gives him a
drum, one side of which makes enemies flee and the other makes them friendly and
brings an army around him.
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 828-835
quote_or_summary: The third hermit asks for sour milk; Sakka gives him a milk-bowl
that, if turned over with a wish, becomes a great river able to take and grant
a kingdom.
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 839-842
quote_or_summary: A wild boar finds a magical gem in a forsaken village, holds it
in his mouth, rises into the air by its magic, and travels to an island in the
ocean.
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: lines 842-845
quote_or_summary: The boar decides to live on the island, descends, settles under
an Udumbara-tree, and one day falls asleep at the foot of the tree with the gem
placed before him.
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 847-853
quote_or_summary: A man from Kāsi, expelled from home, serves sailors, survives
a shipwreck with a plank, reaches the island, sees the sleeping boar while looking
for fruit, and quietly takes the gem.
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 855-861
quote_or_summary: The man rises into the air by the gem’s power, sits in the Udumbara-tree,
infers that the boar became a sky-walker through the gem, and decides to kill
and eat him before leaving.
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: summary
locator: lines 863-866
quote_or_summary: The man drops a twig on the boar’s head; the boar wakes, panics
after not seeing the gem, sees the man in the tree, dashes his head against the
tree, and dies.
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:18
type: summary
locator: lines 868-872
quote_or_summary: The man descends, cooks and eats the boar, flies through the air,
descends at the eldest hermit’s hut in the Himalayas, serves him for two or three
days, and learns of the hatchet’s magical power.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The narrative actions, figures, and objects are explicit. Motif labels are
necessarily broader than the passage’s wording where the supplied taxonomy lacks
specific categories for disputed-child judgment, Yakshiṇī, magical objects, and
shipwreck-island acquisition. Historical-contact comparison is uncertain because
the passage only raises the question.
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: |-
Used only the supplied passage and metadata. Taxonomy references are limited to the provided available_taxonomy_refs.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:buddhist-jataka-birth-stories-rhys-davids-gutenberg__l740-l872
passage_sha256=2366a004a4601de34c46b057a55cfaef1df6eb25ba98d8afc6a26d93aea4c7e2