batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l16817-l16964
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record_id: batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l16817-l16964
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
passage_locator:
label: Canto XXX. The Triumph Of Love. / Canto XXXII. The Gift Of The Treasures.
/ Canto XXXVII. The Coats Of Bark. / Canto XLVI. The Halt.; lines 16817-16964
start: '16817'
end: '16964'
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 people and sages who followed Rāma wake to find him gone, lament his
departure, follow his chariot tracks until the traces vanish, and return grieving
to Ayodhyā. The city and its households mourn. Women rebuke their returning husbands,
praise Lakshmaṇ for following Rāma with Sītā, imagine forests, waters, trees,
and mountains welcoming Rāma, and urge that they too go to serve Sītā and Rāma.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: At morning the people find that Rāma is absent and search without finding
any trace of him.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The sages lament that sleep prevented them from staying with Rāma and say
he has gone to the woods as a hermit.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The mourners propose death or setting dry tree trunks on fire and throwing
their bodies on the pyre.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: They follow the road marked by Rāma’s chariot, but when the chariot traces
cease they turn back in despair.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: Ayodhyā is described as deprived of beauty and filled with care after Rāma’s
absence.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: Returned householders weep in their mansions among their children and wives,
while trade, cooking, and ordinary joy cease.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: Women in the houses rebuke their returning husbands and state that Lakshmaṇ
alone is worthy because he follows Rāma with Sītā through the wood.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: The women say pools, fountains, lakes, streams, forests, mountains, groves,
trees, roots, fruits, and cascades will welcome or serve Rāma.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: The women say that where Rāma stands there is no danger, and urge going to
Rāma so that they may attend Sītā while their husbands care for Rāma.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Rāma
description: Absent prince and lord whose departure to the woods causes mourning
in Ayodhyā; described by speakers as good, wise, strong-armed, and the support
and friend of all who live.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:9
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Followers, sages, and Brāhmans of Ayodhyā
description: People who had followed Rāma, wake to find him gone, lament, pursue
his chariot traces, and return to Ayodhyā in grief.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Women of Ayodhyā
description: Women in the houses who wail, rebuke their returning husbands, praise
Lakshmaṇ, and propose going to serve Sītā and Rāma.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:9
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Lakshmaṇ
description: Named by the women as the one man of real worth because he follows
Rāma with Sītā through the wood.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Sītā
description: Companion of Rāma in the wood; the women say they will attend on her
there.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:9
roles:
- id: role:1
label: absent beloved lord
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Rāma’s absence causes collective grief, and speakers call him their dear
lord and the support, lord, and friend of all who live.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:9
- id: role:2
label: mourning followers
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: They search, lament, follow chariot marks, and return to the city in sorrow.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:3
label: lamenting household women
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Women wail in every house, rebuke returning husbands, and urge renewed service
to Rāma and Sītā.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:9
- id: role:4
label: loyal companion
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Lakshmaṇ is praised as true and good because he follows Rāma with Sītā through
the wood.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:5
label: forest companion to be served
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Sītā is named as accompanying Rāma through the wood, and the women propose
attending on her there.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:9
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: pyre fire
literal_form: dry tree trunks set on fire as a proposed pyre
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:2
label: vanishing chariot traces
literal_form: marks of Rāma’s chariot on the road that later disappear
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:3
label: mourning city
literal_form: Ayodhyā deprived of beauty and compared to dark or emptied natural
forms
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: welcoming waters
literal_form: pools, fountains, lakes, streams, floods, and cascades imagined as
serving Rāma
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:5
label: welcoming forest trees
literal_form: forests, groves, and blossoming trees imagined as pleasing Rāma
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:6
label: welcoming mountains
literal_form: mountain peaks, woody hills, rocky heights, and earth-upholding hills
imagined as providing water and abundance for Rāma
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Morning discovery of Rāma’s absence
summary: The people wake, find no Rāma, search for traces, and lament that sleep
allowed him to depart for the woods.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Despair and failed pursuit
summary: The mourners speak of dying on a pyre, then follow the chariot marks until
the traces vanish and they turn back.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Return to grieving Ayodhyā
summary: The followers return to a city portrayed as joyless, and households cease
normal activities while householders weep.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:4
label: Women’s lament and renewed desire to serve
summary: The women lament to their husbands, praise Lakshmaṇ’s loyalty, imagine
nature welcoming Rāma, and urge going to serve Sītā and Rāma.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: departure of the beloved prince into exile
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
basis: Rāma is absent from his followers, is said to have fled to the woods as a
hermit, and the community returns bereft to Ayodhyā.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage emphasizes the aftermath of departure rather than narrating
the original decision to depart.
- id: motif:2
label: loyal companion follows the exile
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Lakshmaṇ is singled out as true and good because he follows Rāma with Sītā
through the wood.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: Only Lakshmaṇ’s loyalty is explicitly praised here; details of his decision
are not included in this passage.
- id: motif:3
label: community-wide lament for absent lord
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
basis: Rāma’s absence causes sages, Brāhmans, women, households, commerce, and the
city as a whole to fall into grief, implying his central role in civic order.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy reference is based on the city’s dependence on Rāma as lord,
but the passage does not present a formal claim to kingship.
- id: motif:4
label: nature welcomes and serves the righteous hero
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The women imagine waters, forests, trees, roots, fruits, hills, and cascades
gladly serving and delighting Rāma during his forest life.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: This is presented as the women’s speech and expectation, not as a narrated
event already occurring.
- id: motif:5
label: beloved figure as universal support and protector
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: The women say that no danger comes where Rāma stands and call him the support,
lord, and friend of all who live.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage itself uses exalted devotional language but does not explicitly
call Rāma divine in this excerpt.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 16817-16826
quote_or_summary: The people wake in the morning, discover that Rāma is not there,
search every place, and find no trace of him.
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 16827-16842
quote_or_summary: The sages lament the sleep that took their senses and ask how
the strong-armed hero could abandon devoted people and flee to the woods as a
hermit.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: lines 16843-16850
quote_or_summary: "“Come let us set these logs on fire / And throw our bodies on
the pyre.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 16867-16878
quote_or_summary: The followers go along the road where chariot traces are visible,
but when the traces disappear they despair, say fate stops the way, and return
by the road they came.
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 16879-16902
quote_or_summary: They reach Ayodhyā, which is filled with care and appears joyless
and disquieted without Rāma; the Brāhmans pass to their houses with blank, sorrowing
faces.
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 16907-16920
quote_or_summary: Those who returned enter their mansions with children and wives,
weep heavily, and the town’s normal joys of trade, cooking, earning, and family
delight are absent.
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 16921-16936
quote_or_summary: Women wail in every house, taunt their returning lords, and say
Lakshmaṇ alone is truly worthy because he follows Rāma with Sītā through the wood.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 16937-16956
quote_or_summary: The women say that pools, streams, forests, mountains, groves,
blossoming trees, roots, fruits, hills, and cascades will welcome, delight, and
provide for Rāma.
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 16957-16964
quote_or_summary: The women declare that where Rāma stands there is nothing to fear,
call him the world’s support, lord, and friend, and urge going to serve Sītā while
their husbands care for Rāma.
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 English passage. Motif labels are
candidate descriptions grounded in the passage; broader theological or epic context
was not used. No comparison claims were added because the excerpt itself does
not support a specific cross-text comparison.
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'
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