batch.motif.hindu-mahabharata-dutt-gutenberg-l2082-l2146
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record_id: batch.motif.hindu-mahabharata-dutt-gutenberg-l2082-l2146
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/mahabharata-dutt.md
passage_locator:
label: BOOK III / RAJASUYA / BOOK IV / DYUTA; lines 2082-2146
start: '2082'
end: '2146'
translation: Maha-bharata
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: Pritha laments as Draupadi and Pritha's sons prepare for forest exile.
She recalls Pandu and Madri in the sky, appeals to divine and human protectors,
asks that at least Sahadeva remain with her, and is consoled by her children before
they depart for the jungle. Kuru women mourn with her, while Dhrita-rashtra is
troubled by anxious misgivings.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Draupadi is described with wet eyes and loose tresses; she bows and leaves
while Pritha follows weeping.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Pritha's children come before their mother wearing deer-skin garments and
with heads bent in shame.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: Pritha speaks in broken, choked accents, calling her children dutiful, noble,
stainless, and wrongfully afflicted by sorrow.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Pritha says her sons will range a pathless forest by day and night, deprived
of everything except their native virtue and might.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: Pritha recalls having lived by Pandu's side among rocky mountains and says
Pandu now dwells in regions of the sky.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Pritha says Madri followed Pandu to the bright sky and is now his joy and
stay.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: Pritha begs her children and Draupadi not to leave her alone and asks that
one child, especially Sahadeva, remain with her.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: Pritha appeals for help to the Creator Vidhata, Krishna, Bhishma, Drona, Kripa,
and her husband in the starry mansions.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:9
text: Pritha's children console her, wipe her eyes, and turn toward the pathless
jungle with bitter sighs.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:10
text: Kuru women accompany fainting Pritha to Vidura's palace and mourn both Pritha
and Draupadi.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:11
text: Dhrita-rashtra is described as an ancient monarch troubled by sad misgivings
and anxious questions about fate.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Draupadi
description: A fair woman with wet eyes and loose tresses who bows and leaves; later
Kuru maids mourn her fortune.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Pritha
description: A weeping mother who laments to her children, recalls Pandu and Madri,
appeals for help, and is later taken to Vidura's palace.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Pritha's children
description: Duteous children who appear before Pritha in deer-skin garments, are
addressed as exiled sons, console her, and go toward the jungle.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Sahadeva
description: The youngest and gentlest son named by Pritha as dearest to her widowed
heart and asked to watch beside her.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Pandu
description: Pritha's husband and the father of her children, described as dwelling
in the sky and invoked from starry mansions.
role_refs:
- role:5
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Madri
description: Called faithful; she followed Pandu to the bright sky and is now his
joy and stay.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Vidhata / Creator
description: Addressed by Pritha as the kind Creator and asked to close her days
and end her sorrows.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Krishna
description: Addressed as pious-hearted Krishna, friend of the friendless, to whom
sufferers pray.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Bhishma
description: Named by Pritha among helpers and described with Drona and Kripa as
friends of truth and virtue.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Drona
description: Named by Pritha among helpers and described with Bhishma and Kripa
as linked with truth and virtue.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Kripa
description: Named by Pritha among helpers and called good and wise.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: Kuru women
description: Kuru dames, queens, and maids who accompany Pritha, answer her cries,
and mourn Draupadi.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:13
name_or_label: Dhrita-rashtra
description: An ancient monarch pained by sad misgivings and anxious questions about
fate.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
roles:
- id: role:1
label: weeping departing woman
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Draupadi is shown with wet eyes and loose tresses as she bows and leaves;
women later mourn her fortune.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- id: role:2
label: grieving mother
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Pritha follows weeping, laments her children’s suffering, begs them not to
leave, and faints or is fainting when taken away.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: role:3
label: exiled sons departing to forest
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The children wear deer-skin garments, are addressed as going to the pathless
forest, and turn toward the pathless jungle.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: role:4
label: requested remaining son
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Pritha asks Sahadeva whether he will watch beside his mother while his brothers
part.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: deceased father in the sky
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Pandu is called the children’s father and is said to dwell in regions of
the sky.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: faithful wife joined to husband in sky
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Madri is said to have followed Pandu to the bright sky and to be his joy
and stay.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:7
label: invoked helper or protector
assigned_to:
- fig:5
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:11
basis: Pritha appeals for help or mercy to Vidhata, Krishna, Bhishma, Drona, Kripa,
and her husband in the starry mansions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:8
label: communal mourners
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: Kuru dames, queens, and maids accompany Pritha and raise cries or mourn Draupadi.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:9
label: anxious monarch
assigned_to:
- fig:13
basis: Dhrita-rashtra is called an ancient monarch and is troubled by misgivings
about fate.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: tears and wet eyes
literal_form: wet eyes, weeping, tear-drops, tear-dewed faces
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:12
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: sym:2
label: deer-skin garments
literal_form: garments of the deer-skin worn by Pritha's children
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: pathless forest or jungle
literal_form: pathless forest, trackless way, pathless jungle
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: sky and starry mansions
literal_form: regions of the sky, bright sky, starry mansions
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: rocky mountains
literal_form: rocky mountains where Pritha dwelt by Pandu's side
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:6
label: Vidura's palace
literal_form: Vidura's palace, to which Kuru dames take fainting Pritha
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:12
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Draupadi and Pritha depart weeping
summary: Draupadi bows and leaves while Pritha follows weeping; Pritha's sons appear
before their mother in deer-skin garments with heads bent.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Pritha's lament to her children
summary: Pritha laments her children’s undeserved suffering, their coming life in
the pathless forest, and her own grief as their mother.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Memory of Pandu and Madri in the sky
summary: Pritha remembers life with Pandu among rocky mountains, says Pandu and
Madri are in the sky, and describes her sons as her remaining hope.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Appeals for mercy and help
summary: Pritha appeals to the Creator, Krishna, Bhishma, Drona, Kripa, and her
husband, then asks that at least Sahadeva remain with her.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Children console Pritha and leave for the jungle
summary: Pritha's children wipe her eyes, console her, and turn toward the pathless
jungle with bitter sighs.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Kuru women mourn and escort Pritha
summary: Kuru women take fainting Pritha to Vidura's palace and mourn Pritha and
Draupadi.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:12
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:7
label: Dhrita-rashtra's misgivings
summary: Dhrita-rashtra is troubled by sad misgivings and repeatedly questions what
fate has ordained.
figure_refs:
- fig:13
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: departure into forest exile
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
basis: The children wear deer-skin garments, Pritha speaks of their pathless forest
road, and they finally turn toward the pathless jungle.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The immediate cause of exile is only alluded to in this passage, not narrated
here.
- id: motif:2
label: maternal lament at separation from exiled children
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Pritha laments as mother, begs the children not to leave her alone, and asks
that at least one son remain with her.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: This is a passage-level affective pattern rather than a named taxonomy
motif in the supplied list.
- id: motif:3
label: appeal to divine and elder protectors during crisis
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Pritha asks Vidhata, Krishna, Bhishma, Drona, Kripa, and Pandu for mercy
or help during the departure crisis.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage records invocations but does not show any response from the
invoked figures.
- id: motif:4
label: dead kin imagined in the sky
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Pandu and Madri are described as dwelling or having gone to the sky, and
Pandu is invoked from starry mansions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage gives a brief heavenly location for the dead but no detailed
afterlife journey map.
- id: motif:5
label: communal female mourning
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Kuru dames, queens, and maids accompany Pritha, answer her cry, and mourn
Draupadi with tear-dewed faces.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage does not develop this into an independent ritual sequence.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 2082-2146, opening departure scene
quote_or_summary: Draupadi has wet eyes and loose tresses, bows and leaves; Pritha
follows weeping; Pritha's children arrive in deer-skin garments with heads bent
in shame.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/mahabharata-dutt.md
rights_note: Public domain source; excerpt summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 2082-2146, Pritha's first lament
quote_or_summary: Pritha calls her children dutiful and stainless, asks why undeserved
sorrow has come upon them, and imagines them ranging the pathless forest day and
night.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/mahabharata-dutt.md
rights_note: Public domain source; excerpt summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 2082-2146, recollection of Pandu and plea not to part
quote_or_summary: Pritha remembers rocky mountains where she dwelt with Pandu, says
Pandu and Madri are in the sky, calls her sons her hope, and asks her children
and Draupadi not to leave her alone.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/mahabharata-dutt.md
rights_note: Public domain source; excerpt summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 2082-2146, appeals and Sahadeva request
quote_or_summary: Pritha asks Vidhata to end her sorrows, asks Krishna, Bhishma,
Drona, Kripa, and Pandu for help, and specifically asks Sahadeva to stay beside
her.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/mahabharata-dutt.md
rights_note: Public domain source; excerpt summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 2082-2146, consolation and communal mourning
quote_or_summary: Pritha's children console her and turn toward the pathless jungle;
Kuru women take Pritha to Vidura's palace and mourn Pritha and Draupadi.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/mahabharata-dutt.md
rights_note: Public domain source; excerpt summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 2082-2146, closing couplet
quote_or_summary: Dhrita-rashtra, the ancient monarch, is pained by sad misgivings
and anxiously questions what fate has ordained.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/mahabharata-dutt.md
rights_note: Public domain source; excerpt summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied passage. Motif labels are passage-level
candidates; no external comparison claims are made.
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 comparison claims were added because the passage itself does not explicitly compare this episode with another tradition or corpus pattern beyond the directly observable departure and lament motifs.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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