Reward for religious sacrifice

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Reward for religious sacrifice.

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds rewarded. · Piety rewarded. · view the constellation · filed as Q21

Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

India*Thompson-Balys
Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 427.

Within the index

Filed under Piety rewarded.

1 finer motif beneath it

Old woman gives her only cow believing she would receive a hundred in return from God. A bishop hearing of her faith sends her a hundred cows

Filed beside it

Reward for service of god, hero, or ascetic for a period Fulfillment of precepts rewarded Reward for faith Reward for securing converts Reward for carrying Christ across a stream. Christ is in the form of a child. (St. Christopher.)Keeping fast rewarded Reward for faith: boy doomed to die saved (miraculously)Reward for religious pilgrimage Reward for offering food to crucifix (Madonna)Reward for saying of prayers. (Cf. V50.)Reward for austerities of hermit. (Cf. Q144.1.) The further he must carry water, the greater his heavenly reward Reward for writing hymn. (Cf. Q172.5.)Reward for repentance. (Cf. Q174.1.)Reward for carrying out dead man's request Reward for attendance on holy man. (Cf. Q116.1.)Piety rewarded – miscellaneous

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