batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l11511-l11685
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record_id: batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l11511-l11685
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 11511-11685
start: '11511'
end: '11685'
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: The king rebukes Kaikeyí for demanding that Bharat be made king and Ráma
be sent to the woods. He argues that Bharat would not accept an unjust throne,
foresees public reproach, grief among the queens and Sítá, Ráma's obedient acceptance
of exile, his own death, and Ráma's loss of royal comforts in the forest.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The speaker addresses Kaikeyí and condemns her request as shameful, sinful,
and ruinous.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Kaikeyí's stated plan is that Bharat should reign and Ráma should remain in
the woods.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The speaker says Bharat will not accept the throne if Ráma is kept from his
rights, because Bharat is committed to justice.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The speaker anticipates reproach from gathered princes, sages, the people,
and the wider world if Ráma is exiled and dispossessed.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:8
- id: obs:5
text: The speaker says Kauśalyá will ask about her son, whom the speaker would have
exiled.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The speaker says the Videhan bride, Sítá, will suffer from Ráma's disgrace
and the father's death.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: The speaker expects Ráma to obey the command to go to the woods without resistance.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: The speaker predicts his own death after Ráma's departure and raises the issue
of funeral honors.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:9
text: The speaker imagines Ráma losing royal modes of travel, food, clothing, and
bedding, and instead walking in the forest, eating fruit and grain, wearing one
garment, and lying on the ground.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:10
text: The speaker compares Kaikeyí or his attachment to her with dangerous hidden
things, including a deadly draught, a hunter's lure, a cord that binds, and a
black snake.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: the king and speaker
description: A king who calls Ráma his son, addresses Kaikeyí as queen, fears dishonor,
and anticipates his own death.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:7
- ev:9
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Kaikeyí
description: A queen addressed by the speaker as the source or bearer of the demand
that Bharat reign and Ráma go to the woods.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Ráma
description: The speaker's high-souled son, whose royal rights are threatened and
who is expected to obey exile to the woods.
role_refs:
- role:4
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:7
- ev:10
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Bharat
description: Kaikeyí's son, proposed as ruler in place of Ráma, but described by
the speaker as too just to accept such a throne.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:9
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Kauśalyá
description: A queen and mother of Ráma who is expected to ask about her exiled
son and to be overcome by grief.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:9
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Sumitrá
description: A queen who, according to the speaker, will see Ráma driven away dishonored
and without offence.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Sítá, the Videhan bride
description: Ráma's bride, expected to hear of Ráma's disgrace and his father's
death and to grieve.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: gathered princes
description: Princes from near and far whom the speaker expects to comment on the
king's conduct.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: sages
description: Good and holy sages versed in Scripture who are expected to ask for
Ráma.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: the people and honest tongues
description: A collective public voice expected to reproach the king for exiling
his beloved son for a woman's sake.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
roles:
- id: role:1
label: king under moral reproach
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker fears that princes, sages, and the people will condemn him for
dispossessing and exiling Ráma.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:8
- id: role:2
label: father of the threatened heir
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker repeatedly calls Ráma his son and imagines ordering him into
the woods.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:10
- id: role:3
label: queen whose demand redirects succession
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Kaikeyí is addressed as the one whose request would make Bharat king and
send Ráma to the woods.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: dispossessed heir
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Ráma is described as being kept from his rights, unkinged, and sent away.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:8
- id: role:5
label: obedient exile
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The speaker expects Ráma to answer the exile decree only with obedience.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:6
label: alternate royal claimant
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Bharat is the proposed ruler in Kaikeyí's plan, though the speaker says he
would not accept injustice.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:7
label: grieving queen or mother
assigned_to:
- fig:5
- fig:6
basis: Kauśalyá and Sumitrá are named among queens who will face Ráma's dishonor
or exile and suffer grief.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:9
- id: role:8
label: grieving bride
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Sítá is expected to hear the double sorrow of her lord's disgrace and his
father's death.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:9
label: public moral witness
assigned_to:
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
basis: Princes, sages, and the public are imagined as asking, judging, and reproaching
the king.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:8
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: woods or forest exile
literal_form: the woods and forest wilds where Ráma would remain or wander
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:10
- id: sym:2
label: throne and reign
literal_form: Bharat reigning over the land and Ráma kept from royal rights
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: black snake
literal_form: a black snake touched by a heedless child in the speaker's simile
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- serpent
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: sym:4
label: deadly draught
literal_form: a drink that appears desirable but proves deadly
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: sym:5
label: funeral honors
literal_form: hands paying funeral honors to the speaker's clay
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:6
label: royal comforts contrasted with forest hardship
literal_form: elephant or chariot, prepared meals, precious robes, fruit and grain,
one garment, and the ground
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Rebuke of Kaikeyí's demand
summary: The king condemns Kaikeyí's demand that Bharat be enthroned and Ráma sent
to the woods.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Anticipated failure of legitimacy
summary: The king says Bharat would reject an unjust throne and imagines princes,
sages, and the people condemning the king's act.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:8
- id: scene:3
label: Projected grief of the royal household
summary: The king foresees grief for Kauśalyá, Sumitrá, and Sítá because of Ráma's
exile, dishonor, and the father's death.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:4
label: Ráma's obedient departure
summary: The king imagines giving Ráma the command to go to the woods and expects
Ráma to obey without resistance.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:5
label: Aftermath of exile and death
summary: The king predicts his death, possible funeral consequences if Bharat accepts
the plan, and devastation of the royal house.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: scene:6
label: Loss of royal life in the forest
summary: The king contrasts Ráma's former royal comforts with the hardship of forest
wandering.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: scene:7
label: Danger concealed in beloved form
summary: The king uses images of hidden danger to describe Kaikeyí or his attachment
to her.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: contested royal succession
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
basis: The passage centers on the attempt to make Bharat king instead of Ráma and
on the moral legitimacy of that succession.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives the dispute through the speaker's lament and does not
narrate the full political background.
- id: motif:2
label: exile or departure to the forest
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
basis: Ráma is repeatedly imagined as being sent to the woods, leaving home, and
wandering in forest hardship.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:7
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: This passage anticipates the departure rather than narrating the physical
departure itself.
- id: motif:3
label: obedient son accepts harsh command
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The king states that when ordered to go to the woods, Ráma will answer only
with obedience and will not withstand the decree.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The motif is inferred from the speaker's expectation; Ráma does not speak
directly in this passage.
- id: motif:4
label: public shame after unjust royal act
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
basis: The speaker anticipates reproach from princes, sages, the people, and the
world for exiling and dispossessing Ráma.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The reproach is projected by the speaker and not yet enacted in the passage.
- id: motif:5
label: dangerous beloved compared to serpent
taxonomy_refs:
- serpent
basis: The speaker says he unknowingly cherished Kaikeyí like a snare and compares
his contact with her to a heedless child touching a black snake.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
confidence: medium
cautions: The serpent appears in a simile, not as an independent narrative being.
- id: motif:6
label: grief-death of the royal father
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The speaker predicts that after seeing Ráma depart and hearing Sítá grieve,
death will carry him away.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: This is a predicted consequence within a lament, not a completed event
in the passage.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage fits a royal-legitimacy pattern in which a planned succession
is disrupted by an alternate claimant and judged by moral and public standards.
claim_level: same_motif
target: royal_legitimacy motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:8
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The claim is limited to the supplied taxonomy family and this passage's
projected consequences.
- id: claim:2
claim: The passage fits a departure or exile pattern because the central threatened
action is Ráma's command to leave the palace and live in the woods.
claim_level: same_motif
target: departure motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:7
- ev:10
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The actual journey is not narrated here; the passage presents anticipation
and lament.
- id: claim:3
claim: The black-snake comparison provides a limited serpent-symbol parallel for
hidden danger within an intimate relationship.
claim_level: visual_similarity
target: serpent symbol or serpent motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The snake is metaphorical and does not function as a character or mythic
creature in the narrative scene.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 11511-11685, opening rebuke
quote_or_summary: "“Have goblins seized thy soul... Thy mind with sin is sicklied
o’er”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 11511-11685, Kaikeyí's request described
quote_or_summary: "“That Bharat o’er the land may reign, / And Ráma in the woods
remain”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: lines 11511-11685, Bharat and justice
quote_or_summary: "“Thy son will ne’er the throne accept / If Ráma from his rights
be kept”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 11511-11685, public and sages anticipated
quote_or_summary: The king imagines gathered princes and scripture-versed sages
asking about Ráma and judging the king's action.
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 11511-11685, Kauśalyá passage
quote_or_summary: The king anticipates Kauśalyá asking about her son and describes
her as tenderly caring for him.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 11511-11685, Sítá and double sorrow
quote_or_summary: "“The Videhan bride will hear / A double woe... Her lord’s disgrace,
his father’s death.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:7
type: quote
locator: lines 11511-11685, Ráma's expected obedience
quote_or_summary: "“Hence, Ráma, to the woods away... All he will say is, I obey.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 11511-11685, reproach of the king
quote_or_summary: The speaker says honest tongues and the world will reproach the
king for exiling his beloved son for a woman's sake.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 11511-11685, death and funeral honors
quote_or_summary: The king says death will carry him away after Ráma goes, and if
Bharat consents to the plan he should not perform the king's funeral honors.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 11511-11685, forest hardship
quote_or_summary: The speaker contrasts Ráma's former elephant or chariot, prepared
food, and precious robes with walking in the forest, eating fruit and grain, wearing
one garment, and lying on the ground.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 11511-11685, dangerous similes
quote_or_summary: The speaker likens his trust in Kaikeyí to drinking a deadly draught,
a deer lured by a hunter, a binding cord, and a heedless child touching a black
snake.
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: medium
notes: The speaker, figures, and projected actions are clear in the passage. Some
motif labels rely on anticipated rather than completed events, and the serpent
motif is only simile-based.
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: |-
Only supplied passage text and metadata were used. Names and relationships were limited to those directly present or clearly stated in the passage.
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