batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l20848-l21017
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record_id: batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l20848-l21017
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
passage_locator:
label: Canto LXVI. The Embalming. / Canto LXVII. The Praise Of Kings. / Canto LXVIII.
The Envoys. / Canto LXXV. The Abjuration.; lines 20848-21017
start: '20848'
end: '21017'
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: Bharat rejects any desire for the throne, says he did not know of Rama's
exile, is reproached by the grieving Kausalya, and then swears severe oaths and
curses on whoever consented to Rama's banishment. Kausalya accepts his loyalty
and says he remains true to virtue.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Bharat rises after lying senseless or weakened and addresses his mother with
anger and tears before lords and ministers.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Bharat says he has no desire for kingly power, no longer obeys his mother,
and knew nothing of the consecration planned by Dasaratha.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: Bharat says he and Shatrughna were away in a distant region and did not know
of Rama's exile or of Sita and Lakshman going into banishment.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:4
text: Kausalya hears that Bharat has come, speaks to Sumitra, and comes to see him
in neglected dress and severe distress.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: Bharat and Shatrughna meet Kausalya, find her fallen senseless on the ground,
and embrace her while she weeps.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:6
text: Kausalya accuses Kaikeyi of winning the realm for Bharat and causing guiltless
Rama to flee dressed like a lonely devotee.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: Kausalya says she would go to the distant wood with Sumitra and with sacred
fire as guide to seek Rama.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:8
text: Bharat falls at Kausalya's feet, laments, regains strength, joins his hands
in supplication, and declares himself blameless and loving toward Rama.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:9
text: Bharat pronounces a long series of curses and moral consequences upon the
person who consented to Rama's banishment.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: Kausalya says Bharat's awful oaths renew her grief but also affirms that Bharat
and Lakshman are true to virtue and that Bharat will obtain the mansions of the
good.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Bharat
description: Kaikeyi's son; high-souled; rejects kingly power, denies prior knowledge
of Rama's exile, and swears oaths to prove his innocence.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Kaikeyi
description: Bharat's mother; called a miserable queen by the narration and accused
by Kausalya of fell deeds and of winning the realm for Bharat.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Rama
description: Noble hero and son of Raghu; described as guiltless, truthful, and
banished to the wood dressed like a devotee.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Sita
description: Described as fair Sita, who went forth to banishment with Rama.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Lakshman
description: Went forth to banishment; later described by Kausalya as faithful and
true to virtue.
role_refs:
- role:4
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:7
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Shatrughna
description: Bharat's companion in the distant region and at Kausalya's side when
she is found in distress.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Kausalya
description: Grieving royal matron who reproaches Bharat, accuses Kaikeyi, and later
accepts Bharat's oaths as proof of virtue.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:7
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Sumitra
description: Addressed by Kausalya and named as the companion Kausalya would take
to the wood.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Dasaratha
description: King who had kept Rama's consecration in view; Kausalya's husband who
is described as reft away.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:7
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: The one who consented to Rama's banishment
description: A rhetorically described offender upon whom Bharat calls curses and
the guilt of many sins.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
roles:
- id: role:1
label: renouncer of royal power
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Bharat explicitly says he has no lust for kingly sway and denies knowledge
of the planned consecration.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: exiled righteous prince
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Rama is repeatedly described as noble, truthful, guiltless, and banished
to the wood.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: role:3
label: accused instigator or beneficiary of the exile
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Kausalya accuses Kaikeyi's hand of winning the empire and making Rama flee.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:4
label: companions in banishment
assigned_to:
- fig:4
- fig:5
basis: Bharat says Sita and Lakshman went forth to banishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:5
label: upholder of virtue
assigned_to:
- fig:1
- fig:5
basis: Kausalya says Bharat's soul and faithful Lakshman's soul are true to virtue.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:6
label: supporting kin or companion
assigned_to:
- fig:6
- fig:8
basis: Shatrughna accompanies Bharat, and Sumitra is Kausalya's addressed companion
and proposed forest companion.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:7
label: grieving royal mother
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Kausalya appears distressed, reproaches Bharat, grieves for son and husband,
and then acknowledges his oaths.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:7
- id: role:8
label: absent or deceased king
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Dasaratha is mentioned as the king who planned the consecration and as Kausalya's
husband who is gone.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:7
- id: role:9
label: cursed consenter to exile
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: Bharat repeatedly directs curses toward whoever consented to or approved
Rama's banishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: sacred fire as guide
literal_form: sacred fire
associated_figures:
- fig:7
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:2
label: distant wood of exile
literal_form: distant wood or forest where Rama dwells
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:7
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: realm and royal wealth
literal_form: land with rice, golden corn, wealth, car, elephant, steed, and gem
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: skull borne by doomed wanderer
literal_form: skull carried in the hand while wandering in rags and begging bread
associated_figures:
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: poisoned flowing water
literal_form: water spoiled by deadly poison
associated_figures:
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:6
label: mansions of the good
literal_form: mansions obtained by the good
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Bharat's public abjuration before Kaikeyi and the court
summary: Bharat rises in grief and anger, rejects desire for kingship, denies obedience
to his mother, and says he did not know of Rama's planned consecration or exile.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:9
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Kausalya's arrival and accusation
summary: Kausalya comes in distress, is embraced by Bharat and Shatrughna, and accuses
Kaikeyi of securing the realm by sending Rama into exile.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Bharat's prostration and oath-curses
summary: Bharat falls at Kausalya's feet, asserts innocence and love for Rama, and
calls severe sins and punishments upon whoever consented to the exile.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:7
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:4
label: Kausalya's acknowledgment of Bharat's virtue
summary: Kausalya says Bharat's oaths have deepened her grief but affirms Bharat
and Lakshman's virtue and promises Bharat the reward of the good.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
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- id: motif:1
label: renunciation of contested kingship
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
basis: Bharat rejects desire for royal power, denies prior knowledge of the succession
plan and exile, and seeks to clear himself before Kausalya and the court.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The passage establishes a legitimacy crisis and Bharat's abjuration, but
broader succession details lie outside the supplied excerpt.
- id: motif:2
label: wrongful exile of the righteous prince
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
basis: Rama is repeatedly identified as noble, truthful, guiltless, and banished;
Sita and Lakshman accompany him into exile.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage refers to the exile rather than narrating the actual departure.
- id: motif:3
label: oath-curses as public vindication
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: Bharat invokes a catalogue of moral, ritual, social, and afterlife consequences
on whoever consented to Rama's banishment, using the oaths to persuade Kausalya
of his innocence.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The curses imply moral and cosmic judgment, but no deity is shown directly
judging within this excerpt.
- id: motif:4
label: grieving kin seeking the exiled beloved in the forest
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
basis: Kausalya says she will go with Sumitra, guided by sacred fire, to the wood
where Rama dwells.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: This is a stated intention, not an action completed in the passage.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 20848-20868
quote_or_summary: Bharat rises, reproaches his mother before lords and ministers,
rejects desire for kingly rule, says he knew nothing of Dasaratha's consecration
plan, and says he and Shatrughna were away when Rama, Sita, and Lakshman went
to banishment.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized rather than quoted at length.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 20869-20891
quote_or_summary: Kausalya hears Bharat has come, speaks to Sumitra, goes to him
in neglected and distressed condition, and is embraced by Bharat and Shatrughna
after falling senseless on the ground.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized rather than quoted at length.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 20892-20917
quote_or_summary: Kausalya says the realm is now Bharat's, accuses Kaikeyi of winning
the empire and making guiltless Rama flee dressed like a devotee, and says she
would go with Sumitra and sacred fire to the distant wood where Rama dwells; she
lists the wealth of the land now made Bharat's.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized rather than quoted at length.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 20918-20937
quote_or_summary: Bharat is pained by Kausalya's taunts, falls at her feet, laments,
joins his hands, asks why she reproaches him, declares himself blameless, and
says she knows his love for Rama.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized rather than quoted at length.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 20938-20991
quote_or_summary: Bharat pronounces curses on whoever consented to Rama's banishment,
invoking failures of scripture, justice, royal duty, ritual vows, battle honor,
Vedic correctness, secrecy, family continuity, and courage.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized rather than quoted at length.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 20992-21008
quote_or_summary: 'Bharat''s curses continue: the offender should wander in rags
bearing a skull, beg bread, bear the sin of neglected rites, betrayal, destructive
fire, adultery, failure to honor gods, parents, and ancestors, deceit toward the
weak, marital neglect, and poisoning flowing water.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized rather than quoted at length.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 21009-21017
quote_or_summary: Kausalya, distressed by Bharat's oaths, says they renew her sorrow
but affirms that Bharat and faithful Lakshman are true to virtue and that Bharat
will gain the mansions obtained by the good.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; summarized rather than quoted at length.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: Extraction relies only on the supplied English passage. Motif labels are
candidate classifications from the provided taxonomy; no external comparative
claims are made.
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 comparison claims were added because the passage itself does not explicitly support comparison to another text or tradition.
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