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Motif-hunting in the Khotanese Sudhanāvadāna

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The core of the Khotanese Sudhanāvadāna, a Buddhist text told in a tenth-century Late Khotanese poem, tells a previous life of the Buddha: the story of Sudhana and his wife, the fairy princess Manoharā. Even if probably intended for didactic and dogmatic purposes, this text is a folk-tale, which finds its close parallels in some Sanskrit texts and in the oral literatures of the Iranian languages. The tale consists of three main episodes — the Types ATU560, The Magic Ring, ATU313, The Magic Flight, and ATU400, The Man on a Quest for His Lost Wife —, but we can identify also a great number of Motifs. This paper will focus on some main Motifs and will provide a theoretical reflection on Thompson’s approach in a comparative perspective.
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hal-03955047 , version 1 (24-01-2023)

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Matteo de Chiara. Motif-hunting in the Khotanese Sudhanāvadāna. 9th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Societas Iranologica Europaea, Sep 2019, Berlin, Germany. ⟨hal-03955047⟩
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