batch.motif.buddhist-jataka-birth-stories-rhys-davids-gutenberg-l9826-l9949
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record_id: batch.motif.buddhist-jataka-birth-stories-rhys-davids-gutenberg-l9826-l9949
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
passage_locator:
label: END OF THE STORY ABOUT TRUE DIVINITY. / END OF THE STORY ON A HAPPY LIFE.
/ END OF THE STORY OF THE BANYAN DEER. / END OF THE STORY OF THE DART OF LOVE.;
lines 9826-9949
start: '9826'
end: '9949'
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: "“There is nothing worse than greed, they say.”"
summary: The passage introduces the Vāta-miga Jātaka, telling how the monk Young
Tissa, formerly strict in food observance, is lured away from the Order by a slave-girl
through food he likes. The Master says this has happened before and tells of an
antelope gradually lured by honey-smeared grass until Sanjaya the gardener leads
it into the palace.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Prince Tissa hears the Teacher’s discourse, desires the religious life, obtains
parental consent after refusing food for seven days, and takes vows under the
Master.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:2
text: At Jetavana, Young Tissa begs daily food in Sāvatthi and observes the Thirteen
Practices by which the passions are quelled.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:3
text: Tissa’s parents mourn during a festival and speak of their only son being
taken away to Sāvatthi.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:4
text: A slave-girl asks what dish Tissa liked most and promises, if given authority,
to bring him back.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The slave-girl settles on Tissa’s begging route, supplies him with food and
drink, feigns sickness, and persuades him to leave the Order.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The monks say that a slave-girl brought back Young Tissa by binding him with
the lust of taste.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: The Master says that the monk had formerly also fallen into a woman’s power
after being caught by the lust of taste.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: In the former story, an antelope repeatedly comes to King Brahma-datta’s garden
and becomes accustomed to Sanjaya the gardener.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: Sanjaya uses honey-smeared grass at the antelope’s usual place to make it
return only to the garden.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:10
text: After gaining the antelope’s confidence, Sanjaya sprinkles honey-smeared grass
in front of it and leads it within the palace.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: The Master
description: Teacher living at Jetavana who explains the present event by telling
a former story.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Young Tissa / Prince Tissa
description: A wealthy young man who becomes a monk, keeps food-related observances,
and is later induced to leave the Order.
role_refs:
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Tissa’s parents
description: Parents who refuse consent at first, later mourn their son’s absence,
and authorize the slave-girl to bring him back.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Slave-girl
description: A woman from Tissa’s household who uses preferred food, feigned illness,
and persuasion to bring Tissa back from the Order.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: The monks
description: Monks assembled in the hall of instruction who discuss Tissa’s return.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Brahma-datta
description: King of Benares in the former story, owner of the garden and palace.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Sanjaya
description: The king’s gardener who uses honey-smeared grass to lure an antelope
into the palace.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Antelope
description: A swift antelope that comes to the garden, eats honey-smeared grass,
gains confidence in Sanjaya, and is led into the palace.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
roles:
- id: role:1
label: teacher and interpreter
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The Master identifies the present event as a recurrence and tells a former
story.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:2
label: religious renunciant
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Tissa takes vows and observes ascetic food practices.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: one lured by taste
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:8
basis: Tissa is bound by the lust of taste through food; the antelope is bound by
honey-smeared grass.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
- id: role:4
label: mourning family
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The parents weep over Tissa’s absence and support the plan to bring him back.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: enticer or captor through food
assigned_to:
- fig:4
- fig:7
basis: The slave-girl uses food to gain power over Tissa; Sanjaya uses honey-smeared
grass to lead the antelope to the palace.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:9
- id: role:6
label: reporting audience
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The monks discuss the news in the hall of instruction.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:7
label: royal requester
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The king asks whether Sanjaya could catch the antelope and gives him honey.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: preferred food
literal_form: the dish Tissa was most fond of, and food and drink supplied by the
slave-girl
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: sym:2
label: honey-smeared grass
literal_form: grass smeared with honey and placed or sprinkled before the antelope
associated_figures:
- fig:7
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: sym:3
label: palankeen
literal_form: the palankeen in which the slave-girl travels and seats Tissa for
return to Rājagaha
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: garden-to-palace path
literal_form: a path strewn with branches and honey-smeared grass leading from the
garden to the palace
associated_figures:
- fig:7
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Tissa enters the Order
summary: Prince Tissa hears the Teacher’s discourse, presses his parents for consent
by refusing food, and becomes a monk under the Master.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Tissa becomes known for food observance
summary: At Jetavana, Tissa lives by begging and follows the Thirteen Practices,
becoming famous as the young monk who keeps the law concerning food.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Slave-girl’s plan
summary: Tissa’s parents mourn; the slave-girl asks about his favorite dish and
receives authority and resources to bring him back.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Tissa lured away
summary: The slave-girl provides food and drink, gains influence over Tissa, feigns
sickness, and persuades him to leave the Order and return in her palankeen.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:5
label: Master introduces former story
summary: The monks discuss Tissa’s fall, and the Master says that the same susceptibility
to taste occurred formerly.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:6
label: Antelope lured into the palace
summary: In the former story, Sanjaya gradually wins the antelope’s confidence with
honey-smeared grass and leads it from the garden into the palace.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: greed or lust of taste causing downfall
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The opening maxim says there is nothing worse than greed; both Tissa and
the antelope are described as bound or caught by the lust of taste.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The taxonomy link to wisdom is broad; the passage’s explicit focus is
moral instruction on greed and taste.
- id: motif:2
label: baited capture through sweet or desired food
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The slave-girl uses Tissa’s favored food to gain control, and Sanjaya uses
honey-smeared grass to lure the antelope into the palace.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: No specific supplied taxonomy family directly names food-baiting.
- id: motif:3
label: former-birth parallel exemplum
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The Master frames the animal story as a former instance of the same weakness
shown in the present story.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: This is a narrative structure within the Jātaka passage rather than an
external comparative claim.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: 'The passage explicitly presents the present story of Tissa and the former
story of the antelope as the same recurring pattern: a being is brought under
another’s power through the lust of taste.'
claim_level: same_motif
target: internal comparison between the Tissa frame story and the former-birth antelope
story
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:8
- ev:9
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: This claim is limited to the passage’s own explicit parallel and does
not assert contact, inheritance, or comparison with an outside tradition.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 9826-9834
quote_or_summary: "“There is nothing worse than greed, they say.” The passage identifies
the tale as Vāta-miga Jātaka, “The Greedy Antelope.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 9835-9844
quote_or_summary: Prince Tissa hears the Teacher, desires religious life, compels
parental consent by refusing food for seven days, and takes vows under the Master.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 9845-9852
quote_or_summary: At Jetavana, Young Tissa begs daily food in Sāvatthi, observes
the Thirteen Practices, and becomes famous as the monk who keeps the law concerning
food.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 9853-9874
quote_or_summary: During a festival, Tissa’s parents mourn his absence; a slave-girl
asks what dish he liked most and promises to bring him back if granted authority.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 9875-9900
quote_or_summary: The slave-girl lives on Tissa’s begging route, gives him food
and drink, gains power over him through taste, feigns sickness, persuades him
to leave the Order, and returns with him in a palankeen.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 9901-9913
quote_or_summary: The monks discuss that Tissa was brought back by being bound with
the lust of taste; the Master says this happened to him formerly also and begins
a story.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 9914-9929
quote_or_summary: In Benares, King Brahma-datta has a gardener named Sanjaya. A
swift antelope frequents the garden; Sanjaya says he could bring it into the palace
with honey.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 9930-9940
quote_or_summary: Sanjaya smears honey on grass where the antelope comes; after
eating it, the deer is bound with the lust of taste and comes only to the garden.
It gradually gains confidence and eats grass from Sanjaya’s hand.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 9941-9949
quote_or_summary: Sanjaya prepares a branch-strewn path, carries honey and grass,
sprinkles honey-smeared grass before the antelope, and leads it within the palace.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/buddhist/project-gutenberg/buddhist-birth-stories-volume-1-rhys-davids.md
rights_note: Public domain source text.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: The passage explicitly marks the food-lure pattern and the internal parallel
between the frame story and former story. Taxonomy assignment is limited because
the available motif families do not include a specific food-temptation or animal-capture
category.
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 external comparisons or unsupported taxonomy identifiers were added. Symbols are literal passage objects and do not use unavailable taxonomy refs.
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