batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l16966-l17020
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record_id: batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l16966-l17020
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 16966-17020
start: '16966'
end: '17020'
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 women of Ayodhya lament Rama's exile, condemn Queen Kaikeyi, fear the
king's death and the kingdom's ruin, and describe the city as dark, mournful,
ritually inactive, commercially closed, and like a dried-up sea.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The city women address their husbands and say that Rama will be their guard
and guide and Sita will provide for them.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The women say they do not wish to remain in a sad and dreary town under Queen
Kaikeyi's rule.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The women accuse Kaikeyi of treacherous sin, lust for rule, casting away her
lord and son, and defiling her royal race.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The women swear by their children that they will not dwell as servants in
Kaikeyi's realm.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: The women predict that the land will be helpless, lordless, godless, cursed
by Kaikeyi's guilt, and destroyed.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: The women predict that Rama's exile will cause the king to die and ruin to
follow.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: The women say Rama, Sita, and Lakshman were driven away on a false pretense
and that the people have been given to Bharat like cattle driven to slaughter.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: At sunset and nightfall, the women in each house continue to complain at the
loss of Rama.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: The fires of worship are cold, no sacred text is hummed, and no tale is told
in the town.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:10
text: The women shed tears for Rama as if for a departed son or husband.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:11
text: Ayodhya's feasting, music, song, dance, merriment, and commerce have ceased.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:12
text: Ayodhya is compared to a dried-up sea.
category: attribute
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figures:
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name_or_label: city dames / women of Ayodhya
description: Women of the city who lament Rama's loss, address their husbands, condemn
Kaikeyi, and weep for Rama.
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- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:6
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name_or_label: Rama
description: The exiled lord whom the women describe as guard and guide and whose
loss causes public mourning.
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- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Sita
description: The women say Sita will provide for them; she is named among those
driven away with Rama and Lakshman.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Queen Kaikeyi
description: Queen accused by the women of treacherous sin, desire for rule, oppressive
rule, and guilt bringing ruin on the land.
role_refs:
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evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: king / Rama's sire
description: The king, Rama's father, whom the women predict will die because Rama
has been forced from home.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Lakshman
description: Named with Rama and Sita as having been driven away on a false pretense.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Bharat
description: The women say they have been given to Bharat like cattle driven to
the shambles.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Ayodhya
description: The city or land described as mournful, ritually inactive, commercially
closed, and like a dried-up sea.
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evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
roles:
- id: role:1
label: mourning citizens
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: They lament Rama's loss, speak grief, and shed tears for him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:2
label: exiled lord
assigned_to:
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basis: The women state that Rama has been expelled and forced from home.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: guard and guide
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The women say Rama shall be their guard and guide.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:4
label: companions in exile
assigned_to:
- fig:3
- fig:6
basis: Sita and Lakshman are named with Rama as driven away.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: condemned queen
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The women accuse Kaikeyi of treachery, lust for rule, oppressive rule, and
guilt.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: grieving father-king
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The women predict the king, Rama's sire, will die because Rama is forced
to fly from home.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:7
label: recipient of transferred rule
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The women say they have been given to Bharat like cattle to slaughter.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:8
label: mourning city
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Ayodhya is described with ceased rituals, entertainments, commerce, and the
simile of a dried-up sea.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: cold worship fires
literal_form: fires of worship all were cold
associated_figures:
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:2
label: dried-up sea
literal_form: Ayodhya was like a dried up sea
associated_figures:
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:3
label: dark mournful town
literal_form: shades of midnight gloom enveloping the mournful town
associated_figures:
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: cattle to slaughter comparison
literal_form: like cattle to the shambles driven
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Women condemn Kaikeyi and reject life under her rule
summary: The city women address their husbands, say they will follow Rama and Sita
rather than remain in a joyless town, condemn Kaikeyi, and vow not to live as
servants under her.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: scene:2
label: Predicted ruin after Rama's exile
summary: The women say Kaikeyi's guilt will make the land helpless and doomed, and
they predict that Rama's exile will cause the king's death and the kingdom's ruin.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:8
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Ayodhya at night in public mourning
summary: At night, women throughout the city continue grieving Rama; worship fires
are cold, recitation and tales cease, tears are shed, festivities and commerce
stop, and Ayodhya is compared to a dried-up sea.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: exile of the rightful lord causing communal grief
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
- royal_legitimacy
basis: Rama is described as expelled and forced from home, while the city women
mourn him, reject Kaikeyi's rule, and fear ruin after the father's death.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The passage emphasizes public lament and political disorder rather than
narrating the actual departure.
- id: motif:2
label: kingdom made desolate by unjust rule
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
- royal_legitimacy
basis: The women attribute the land's coming helplessness, godlessness, curse, and
destruction to Kaikeyi's guilt and oppressive hand.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage gives the women's fearful prediction and lament; it does not
independently confirm divine judgment.
- id: motif:3
label: cessation of ritual, festivity, and commerce in mourning
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage describes cold worship fires, no recitation, no tales, ceased
feasting, music, dance, merriment, and closed merchants' stores.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: No specific taxonomy reference among the supplied motif families directly
names civic mourning or ritual cessation.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 16966-16975
quote_or_summary: The city women tell their husbands that Rama will be their guard
and guide, Sita will provide for them, and they do not wish to remain in the sad,
dark town.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 16976-16991
quote_or_summary: The women accuse Queen Kaikeyi of treachery and lust for power,
say she has cast away her lord and son, and swear not to remain as servants if
she reigns.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 16992-17001
quote_or_summary: The women say the land will be helpless, lordless, godless, cursed
for Kaikeyi's guilt, and destroyed; they predict the king will die because Rama
has been forced from home and ruin will follow.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 17002-17009
quote_or_summary: The women consider alternatives to remaining, say Rama, Sita,
and Lakshman were driven away on a false pretense, and compare being given to
Bharat to cattle driven to slaughter.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 17010-17017
quote_or_summary: As sunset and night arrive, women in each house continue to lament
Rama; worship fires are cold, no text is hummed, no tale is told, and midnight
gloom envelops the mournful town.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 17018-17020
quote_or_summary: The women, sick at heart, shed tears for Rama as for a departed
son or husband, and no child was loved as he was.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 17020-17028
quote_or_summary: Ayodhya's feasts, music, song, dance, merriment, and commerce
have ceased, and the city is compared to a dried-up sea.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Extraction is based solely on the supplied passage. Motif mapping is cautious
because the passage is mainly civic lament and prediction rather than a complete
mythic episode.
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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