batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l11312-l11443
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record_id: batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l11312-l11443
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 11312-11443
start: '11312'
end: '11443'
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 presses a harsh request upon the monarch. The monarch is overcome
with anguish, collapses, denounces her, and pleads that Ráma not be sent into
fourteen years of forest banishment. He praises Ráma’s virtues, obedience, and
universal esteem, offers wealth and submission to Kaikeyí, and ends prostrate
in grief.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Kaikeyí presses the monarch with cruel words and a dire request.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The monarch is distressed, trembles, casts himself on the bare ground, sighs,
speaks in anger, and faints.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The monarch addresses Kaikeyí as a traitress and asks what wrong he or Ráma
has done.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The monarch compares Kaikeyí to a serpent with a venomous tooth.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The monarch says he will give up life or glory, but not his eldest-born Ráma.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: The requested outcome includes Ráma being sent to distant wilds for fourteen
years of banishment.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The monarch says Ráma has treated Kaikeyí with sonlike love and obedience
comparable to Bharat.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: The monarch describes Ráma as pure, gentle, truthful, generous, obedient,
loyal, and honored by subjects, teachers, enemies, sages, and gods.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: The monarch kneels with his head and lips at Kaikeyí’s feet, asks for compassion,
offers her the riches of the land, and begs her to save Ráma.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: At the end of the passage the monarch lies grovelling, senseless with grief,
weeping and wailing.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: the monarch
description: The anguished ruler who responds to Kaikeyí’s request, pleads for Ráma,
and collapses in grief.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Kaikeyí
description: The queen who presses the dire request and is addressed by the monarch
as the one plotting harm against Ráma.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:6
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Ráma
description: The monarch’s well-loved eldest-born, praised as virtuous and threatened
with fourteen years of banishment to the wilds.
role_refs:
- role:4
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Bharat
description: A lofty-souled son mentioned as comparable to Ráma in Kaikeyí’s regard
and as a standard of sonlike affection toward her.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
roles:
- id: role:1
label: anguished ruler
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: He trembles, faints, grovels, and speaks as a monarch overcome by grief.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:7
- id: role:2
label: pleading father
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: He begs Kaikeyí to spare his eldest-born Ráma and offers wealth and submission.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
- id: role:3
label: demanding queen
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: She presses the monarch with cruel words and a dire request affecting Ráma.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:4
label: threatened eldest-born son
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The monarch calls Ráma his eldest-born and says the request would send him
away for fourteen years.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: virtuous royal son
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The monarch lists Ráma’s truth, purity, obedience, generosity, loyalty, and
public esteem.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:6
label: comparative son figure
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Bharat is mentioned as one with whom Ráma shared Kaikeyí’s regard and sonlike
relationship.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: serpent imagery
literal_form: A wild snake confined by charms; a serpent with a venomous tooth.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- serpent
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: sym:2
label: fire of anger and grief
literal_form: The monarch’s eyes burn with fury as if consuming Kaikeyí with fire;
later he lies in burning grief.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:7
- id: sym:3
label: water and sea imagery of grief
literal_form: The sea-girt land, floods of woe, and the sea of pain.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: sym:4
label: supplication at the feet
literal_form: The monarch places his head and lips at Kaikeyí’s feet while entreating
her.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: The monarch’s shocked collapse
summary: After Kaikeyí presses her dire request, the monarch becomes mentally distressed,
falls to the ground, sighs, speaks in anger, and faints.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Denunciation and defense of Ráma
summary: The monarch denounces Kaikeyí, asks what wrong he or Ráma has done, calls
her serpent-like, and refuses to forsake his eldest-born.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Banishment request and praise of Ráma
summary: The monarch identifies the demand as sending Ráma to the wilds for fourteen
years and praises Ráma’s affection, obedience, and virtues.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:4
label: Supplication and final grief
summary: The monarch begs Kaikeyí for mercy, offers her all the riches of the land,
asks her to save Ráma, and lies prostrate in overwhelming sorrow.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: contested royal succession and threatened heir
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
basis: The monarch frames Kaikeyí’s request as ruin to his line and disgrace to
Ikshváku’s ancient race, while defending Ráma, his eldest-born, as uniquely fit
and beloved.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage presents the crisis through the monarch’s speech; it does
not narrate the full political cause of the succession conflict.
- id: motif:2
label: enforced departure into wilderness
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
basis: The proposed action is that Ráma be sent to distant wilds for fourteen years
of banishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage anticipates the banishment but does not yet narrate Ráma’s
actual departure.
- id: motif:3
label: father’s plea to save the beloved son
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The monarch says he cannot live without Ráma, kneels at Kaikeyí’s feet, offers
wealth, and begs her to save his child.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: No supplied taxonomy reference directly matches this family without over-interpreting
it as divine parent-child or sacrifice.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 11312-11323
quote_or_summary: Kaikeyí presses the monarch with cruel words and a dire request;
the monarch stands in anguish, doubts his senses, and trembles like a deer before
a tigress.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 11324-11335
quote_or_summary: The monarch throws himself on the bare ground, sighs like a wild
snake confined by charms, cries shame, faints, and later answers with eyes burning
in fury as if with fire.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 11336-11359
quote_or_summary: The monarch calls Kaikeyí a traitress plotting ruin to his line,
asks what wrong he or Ráma has done, compares her to a venomous serpent, and says
he will not forsake his eldest-born Ráma.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 11384-11399
quote_or_summary: The monarch says Ráma and Bharat once held like place with Kaikeyí,
asks whether she can endure Ráma being sent to the distant wilds for fourteen
years, and says Ráma equals Bharat in sonlike love to her.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 11400-11425
quote_or_summary: The monarch says no follower can blame Ráma, all creatures feel
his gentle soul, he wins subjects, the poor, teachers, and enemies, and he possesses
truth, purity, zeal, generosity, loyalty, rectitude, knowledge, and obedience.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 11426-11437
quote_or_summary: The monarch asks Kaikeyí for mercy, says he is an old man near
death, offers her all the riches of the sea-girt land, places his hands, head,
and lips at her feet, and begs her to save Ráma.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 11438-11443
quote_or_summary: The monarch grovels on the ground, lies senseless in burning grief,
weeps and wails in floods of woe, and strives toward the edge of his sea of pain.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied passage. Motif assignment to royal
legitimacy and departure is well supported, while broader comparison claims are
left empty pending human review.
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 were added because the passage itself does not provide enough evidence for historical-contact, inheritance, or cross-tradition claims.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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