batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l13323-l13448
---
record_id: batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l13323-l13448
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
passage_locator:
label: Canto IX. The Plot. / Canto XV. The Preparations. / Canto XVIII. The Sentence.
/ Canto XXII. Lakshman Calmed.; lines 13323-13448
start: '13323'
end: '13448'
translation: The Ramayan of Valmiki
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: "“Forth to the forest will I go.”"
summary: Rama counsels the angry Lakshman to restrain grief and anger, obey duty,
stop Rama’s royal consecration, use the prepared ritual materials for Bharat’s
enthronement and Rama’s hermit vow, and accept exile to the forest as the work
of Fate rather than blaming Kaikeyi or their father.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Rama remains composed while Lakshman is described as furious, glaring-eyed,
and panting like a snake.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Rama tells Lakshman to restrain anger and grief and remain firm in the path
of duty.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: Rama instructs Lakshman to use the preparations made for Rama’s heir-rites
to grace Bharat’s enthronement instead.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Rama says he wishes to resign the consecration and leave the city for the
wild wood without delay.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Rama says his banishment will free Kaikeyi from care and allow her to celebrate
Bharat’s enthronement.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Rama describes wearing deerskin, bark, and matted hair while wandering in
the wood.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: Rama repeatedly attributes his exile, Kaikeyi’s change of heart, and the transfer
of royal power to Fate.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: Rama commands Lakshman to stop the royal throning rites.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: Rama says the urns prepared to pour king-making drops on his head will instead
inaugurate his hermit’s vow, and that he will take water in his own hands to sanctify
the vow.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: Rama tells Lakshman not to think ill of Kaikeyi or their father, but to remember
that Fate is lord of all.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Rama
description: The speaker who resigns his consecration, accepts banishment, and instructs
Lakshman to uphold duty.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:6
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Lakshman
description: Rama’s dear brother, addressed as Sumitra’s son, who is angry and grieving
over the blocked consecration.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Bharat
description: The one whose throning rites are to be celebrated with items prepared
for Rama.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Kaikeyi
description: The youngest queen whose actions have blocked Rama’s consecration and
promoted Bharat’s enthronement; Rama attributes her change to Fate.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Rama’s father / the king
description: The king whose truth in promise, word, and action Rama seeks to preserve
and whom Lakshman is told not to blame.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:7
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Fate
description: An impersonal power repeatedly named by Rama as governing exile, sovereignty,
joy, pain, life, and death.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:7
roles:
- id: role:1
label: renouncing heir
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Rama resigns the consecration intended for him and orders the royal rites
stopped.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
- id: role:2
label: forest exile / hermit-vow taker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Rama says he will go to the forest, wear ascetic garb, and sanctify a hermit’s
vow with water.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: role:3
label: counselor of restraint and duty
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Rama instructs Lakshman to restrain anger and grief and remain in duty’s
path.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:4
label: angry loyal brother
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Lakshman is described as furious and grieving; Rama addresses and calms him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: role:5
label: replacement king-to-be
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Rama directs that Bharat’s throning rites be graced with the things prepared
for Rama.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:6
label: queen whose demand displaces the consecration
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Rama says Kaikeyi’s words stayed his consecration and drove him into banishment,
though he attributes this to Fate.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:7
label: truth-bound father king
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Rama says his father keeps truth in promise, word, and action and should
not be feared or blamed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:7
- id: role:8
label: overruling destiny
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Rama states that Fate sends him to the wilderness, gives away royal sway,
and governs life, death, joy, pain, loss, and gain.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: serpent-like anger
literal_form: Lakshman panting like a snake
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- serpent
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: forest wilderness
literal_form: wild wood / forest / wilderness
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:7
- id: sym:3
label: ascetic clothing
literal_form: deerskin, bark, and matted hair
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: consecration urns
literal_form: urns prepared to shed king-making drops on Rama’s head
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: vow-sanctifying water
literal_form: water taken in Rama’s hands to sanctify the hermit vow
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:6
label: Fate as ruling power
literal_form: Fate described as lord of all and as governing events and states of
life
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:7
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Rama calms Lakshman
summary: Rama, remaining composed, addresses the furious Lakshman and instructs
him to restrain grief and anger and follow duty.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Transfer of coronation preparations
summary: Rama tells Lakshman that the ritual preparations made for Rama’s consecration
should now be used for Bharat’s enthronement.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
- id: scene:3
label: Acceptance of forest exile
summary: Rama resigns the consecration, says he will leave the city for the wild
wood, and describes adopting forest ascetic signs.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Explanation by Fate
summary: Rama interprets Kaikeyi’s change of heart, the loss of the throne, and
all conditions of life as governed by Fate.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: scene:5
label: Royal lustration redirected into hermit vow
summary: Rama says the urns and lustral waters prepared for royal consecration will
instead inaugurate his hermit vow, which he will sanctify with water in his own
hands.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: renunciation before enthronement
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
basis: 'The passage centers on a blocked royal consecration: Rama resigns the rite,
orders it stopped, and redirects its preparations to Bharat’s enthronement.'
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The passage does not narrate Bharat’s actual enthronement, only Rama’s
instruction concerning it.
- id: motif:2
label: departure into forest exile
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
basis: Rama states that he will leave the city without delay and go to the wild
wood or wilderness, adopting a forest life.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: This excerpt announces and interprets the departure rather than narrating
the journey itself.
- id: motif:3
label: ritual transformation from king to hermit
taxonomy_refs:
- initiation
basis: Royal consecration urns and water are reinterpreted as inaugurating Rama’s
hermit vow, with ascetic clothing replacing royal status.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy reference is interpretive; the passage explicitly names a
vow and lustration but not an initiation ceremony.
- id: motif:4
label: submission to irresistible Fate
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Rama repeatedly says Fate gives away royal power, sends him to the wilderness,
causes Kaikeyi’s change, and governs life, death, joy, pain, loss, and gain.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: No supplied taxonomy family directly names fate or destiny.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 13323-13334
quote_or_summary: Rama remains unshaken; Lakshman is furious and panting like a
snake; Rama tells him to restrain anger and grief and stay firm in duty.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 13335-13344
quote_or_summary: Rama tells Lakshman that the rites and preparations intended for
Rama as heir should now be used for Bharat’s throning rites.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 13345-13366
quote_or_summary: Rama speaks of protecting a loved woman’s heart, preserving his
father’s truth, resigning the consecration, leaving for the wild wood, and enabling
Kaikeyi to celebrate Bharat’s enthronement.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 13367-13382
quote_or_summary: Rama describes wearing deerskin, bark, and matted hair in the
wood; he says he will not grieve the one who approved the counsel, will go to
the forest, and that Fate sends him to the wilderness and gives royal sway to
others.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 13383-13412
quote_or_summary: Rama attributes Kaikeyi’s harsh words, the halted consecration,
and his banishment to Fate, and declares that life, death, joy, pain, anger, fear,
loss, and gain are all Fate’s work.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 13413-13434
quote_or_summary: Rama tells Lakshman to control grief, obey him, halt the throning
rites, and use the prepared urns and lustrations not for royal consecration but
for his hermit vow, which he will sanctify with water.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 13435-13448
quote_or_summary: Rama says forest life may bring more joy than kingship, tells
Lakshman not to fear or blame the youngest queen or their father, and concludes
that Fate is lord of all.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: Literal extraction is straightforward from the supplied passage. Motif labels
are candidate-level and should be reviewed, especially the initiation framing
of the redirected consecration.
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. No external comparisons were added.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg__l13323-l13448
passage_sha256=5633bc6afdb9e423db72288b1a00b82c92d5fa5f9b6b33d238459b94402b096e