batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l10991-l11149
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record_id: batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l10991-l11149
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
passage_locator:
label: BOOK II. / Canto I. The Heir Apparent. / Canto VI. The City Decorated. /
Canto IX. The Plot.; lines 10991-11149
start: '10991'
end: '11149'
translation: The Ramayan of Valmiki
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: Kaikeyí, following the counsel of her hump-backed maid, enters the mourner’s
room, casts off her jewels and attire, lies on the floor, and resolves that Daśaratha
must either hear of her death or grant Ráma’s banishment and Bharat’s kingship.
Daśaratha, having prepared to install Ráma, comes joyfully to Kaikeyí’s palace,
searches for her, is told she is in the mourner’s cell, and finds her lying on
the ground in distress.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Kaikeyí leaves her bower with the hump-backed maid and goes to the mourner’s
room.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Kaikeyí casts off pearls, gems, ornaments, wreaths, and attire, and lies on
the ground or floor.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: obs:3
text: Kaikeyí says the monarch must be told either that she has died or that Ráma
is banished and her son is made king.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The passage attributes Kaikeyí’s conduct to the counsel, tongue, guile, plot,
or plan of the hump-backed maid.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The maid is described as pleased once she knows her lady’s purpose and expects
the sought prize.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: Daśaratha has ordered preparations to install Ráma and goes to Kaikeyí’s palace
to tell her the news.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: Kaikeyí’s palace grounds are described with birds, music, creepers, grots,
flowers, porticoes, fruiting and flowering trees, lakes, seats, and food.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: Daśaratha does not find Kaikeyí on her couch, searches for her, and is told
by a warder maid that she has gone to the mourner’s cell in rage.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: Daśaratha finds Kaikeyí lying on the ground in what the passage calls an unqueenly
posture.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Queen Kaikeyí
description: A royal lady and Daśaratha’s beloved queen who follows the maid’s counsel,
casts off ornaments, lies in the mourner’s cell, and demands Ráma’s banishment
and Bharat’s kingship.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:7
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Hump-backed maid
description: Kaikeyí’s maid or slave whose counsel and guile shape the plan and
who rejoices when Kaikeyí accepts it.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Ráma
description: The prince whom Daśaratha intends to install and whom Kaikeyí plans
to have banished; also called Kauśalyá’s son.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Bharat
description: Kaikeyí’s son, named as the one who should become king in place of
Ráma.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Daśaratha
description: The monarch who has arranged Ráma’s installation, comes to Kaikeyí’s
palace, and finds her lying on the ground.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Warder maiden
description: An attendant who tells Daśaratha that the queen has gone to the mourner’s
cell in rage.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
roles:
- id: role:1
label: royal plotter in the mourner’s cell
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Kaikeyí accepts the maid’s plan, lies in the mourner’s cell, and demands
Ráma’s banishment and Bharat’s kingship.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: role:2
label: counseling maid behind the plot
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The passage repeatedly attributes the plan to the hump-backed maid’s advice,
tongue, and guile.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:3
label: intended heir and target of banishment
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Daśaratha has ordered Ráma’s installation, while Kaikeyí resolves on his
banishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: role:4
label: alternative royal beneficiary
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Kaikeyí says her son Bharat shall rule the land if Ráma is banished.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:5
label: monarch arranging succession
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Daśaratha has ordered all for Ráma’s installation and comes to Kaikeyí with
the news.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:6
label: palace informant
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The warder maiden informs the king that Kaikeyí has gone to the mourner’s
cell.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: mourner’s room or cell
literal_form: A gloomy, silent chamber associated with mourning where Kaikeyí lies
on the floor.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: sym:2
label: discarded royal ornaments
literal_form: Pearls, gems, ornaments, wreaths, chains, necklets, and attire cast
off and spread on the ground.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: sym:3
label: bare floor and prostration
literal_form: Kaikeyí presses or lies on the cold floor or ground in the mourner’s
cell.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:7
- id: sym:4
label: luxuriant palace garden
literal_form: Trees, flowers, creepers, grots, birds, lakes, porticoes, seats, and
abundant food surrounding Kaikeyí’s mansion.
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Kaikeyí enters the mourner’s room and enacts grief
summary: Kaikeyí follows the hump-backed maid into the mourner’s room, throws off
ornaments and attire, lies on the ground, and declares that she will accept only
Ráma’s banishment and Bharat’s kingship.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:2
label: Daśaratha comes to Kaikeyí’s palace
summary: After arranging Ráma’s installation, Daśaratha goes through Kaikeyí’s richly
described palace and garden to share the news, but does not find her in her usual
place.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:3
label: The king learns where Kaikeyí is and finds her
summary: A warder maiden tells Daśaratha that Kaikeyí has gone to the mourner’s
cell in rage; the king then finds her lying on the ground in an unqueenly posture.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: succession plot through banishment of the heir
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
basis: Kaikeyí’s stated plan is that Ráma be banished and Bharat made king, directly
opposing Daśaratha’s preparations to install Ráma.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage presents the plot and its immediate staging, not the later
resolution of succession.
- id: motif:2
label: forced departure anticipated for a royal son
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
basis: The passage repeatedly names Ráma’s banishment or years of wandering as the
outcome Kaikeyí seeks.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The departure is planned and demanded here but has not yet occurred within
this passage.
- id: motif:3
label: feigned or staged grief as coercive leverage
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Kaikeyí removes ornaments, lies in the mourner’s cell, and prepares Daśaratha
to encounter her as though stricken or dead while she presses her demand.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The text describes rage, grief, and deliberate staging; it does not explicitly
use the term feigned.
- id: motif:4
label: counselor’s guile provoking royal crisis
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The hump-backed maid’s advice and guile are identified as moving Kaikeyí
toward the plot that threatens the succession.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: Only this passage’s segment of the counselor’s influence is included.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage fits the royal_legitimacy motif family at the functional level
because a royal succession is contested by a demand to banish the intended heir
and enthrone another prince.
claim_level: same_function
target: royal_legitimacy motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: This is a motif-family comparison only; it does not claim historical
contact or broader cross-cultural equivalence.
- id: claim:2
claim: The passage also has a limited connection to the departure motif family because
it anticipates Ráma’s banishment and wandering.
claim_level: same_function
target: departure motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The departure is prospective in this passage and not narrated as an
enacted journey here.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 10991-11002
quote_or_summary: Kaikeyí leaves her bower with the hump-backed maid for the mourner’s
room and throws her pearls, gems, and ornaments to the earth.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 11003-11013
quote_or_summary: Kaikeyí says the monarch must be told either that her soul has
passed away or that Ráma is banished and her son made king; she says she cares
no more for luxuries if Ráma ascends the throne.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 11014-11042
quote_or_summary: The passage says the maid’s words wound Kaikeyí; Kaikeyí repeats
that she must be reported dead or that Bharat must be king while Kauśalyá’s son
wanders, and she strips off her attire and lies on the bare floor.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 11045-11080
quote_or_summary: Kaikeyí obeys the maid’s counsel, revolves the designed plot,
approves the plan step by step, lies in the mourner’s cell in garb of woe, and
the maid rejoices at her lady’s purpose.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 11081-11126
quote_or_summary: Daśaratha, after ordering preparations to install Ráma, goes to
Kaikeyí’s palace, which is described with birds, music, grots, flowers, trees,
lakes, seats, food, and ornate porticoes.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 11127-11141
quote_or_summary: Daśaratha does not find Kaikeyí on her couch, searches anxiously,
and a warder maid tells him that the queen has sought the mourner’s cell in rage.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 11142-11149
quote_or_summary: Daśaratha, afflicted with grief, finds his beloved queen lying
on the ground in an unqueenly posture.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Literal passage details are clear. Motif labels are cautious and limited
to the provided taxonomy and passage; the actual banishment is only anticipated
here.
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 figures, taxonomy IDs, or external comparisons were added beyond what the passage and supplied taxonomy support.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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