batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l24460-l24568
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record_id: batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l24460-l24568
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
passage_locator:
label: Canto C. The Meeting. / Canto CI. Bharata Questioned. / Canto CIII. The Funeral
Libation. / Canto CIV. The Meeting With The Queens.; lines 24460-24568
start: '24460'
end: '24568'
translation: The Ramayan of Valmiki
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: |-
Death is the end of life, and all,
Now firmly joined, apart must fall.
summary: The people support Bharata's request to Rāma. Rāma consoles Bharata with
a discourse on fate, time, aging, death, separation, and the destiny of the dead
king, then tells Bharata to return to the city and obey their father's decree
while Rāma fulfills the father's command in the forest.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The people approve Bharata's words and press near to Rāma with the same request.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Rāma sees Bharata's mournful mood and speaks to console him.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: Rāma says he is mortal and cannot do all that he wills because fate draws
beings under a resistless law.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Rāma describes death and decay through examples including falling fruit, a
collapsing mansion, aging hair and skin, passing days and nights, the sun drying
floods, seasonal return, and torrents flowing downward.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Rāma compares temporary association with wives, children, friends, and gold
to drifting logs that meet and part on the sea.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Rāma says all living men must tread the path on which sire and ancestors have
led.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: Rāma says their father won heaven through care for servants and people, gifts,
duty, largess, and magnificent rites, and cast aside his aged human body to gain
bliss in Brahmā's heavenly home.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: Rāma instructs Bharata to restrain grief, return to the city, obey their father's
decree, and let Rāma fulfill the father's righteous will in the lonely wood.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Rāma
description: Steadfast hero and speaker who consoles Bharata, teaches obedience
to the father's decree, and says he will remain in the wood to fulfill the father's
will.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Bharata / Bharat
description: Rāma's glorious brother, described as mournful and lamenting, whose
words the people approve.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: The people
description: A crowd moved by longing who approve Bharata's words and press near
to Rāma with the same request.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: The king / the brothers' sire
description: The deceased father and lord who reigned over earth, performed duties,
gifts, and rites, and is said to have gained heaven and Brahmā's heavenly home.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Sire and ancestors
description: Ancestral figures named as those who have already led on the path that
all living men must tread.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
roles:
- id: role:1
label: consoling teacher of mortality and duty
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Rāma consoles Bharata with arguments about fate, death, and obedience to
the father.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: role:2
label: mourning petitioner
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Bharata is described as mournful and lamenting, and his words are supported
by the people.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:3
label: supporting crowd
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The people approve Bharata's words and press Rāma with the same request.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:4
label: deceased righteous king
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The king is said to have reigned over earth, done duty and rites, and gained
heaven after casting aside his body.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: obedient son fulfilling paternal command
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Rāma says he will fulfill the holy father's righteous will in the lonely
wood.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:6
label: ancestral predecessors on the mortal path
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Rāma says all living men must tread the path where sire and ancestors have
led.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: flowing water and oceanward motion
literal_form: Yamunā flowing toward the Ocean, floods dried by the sun, and torrents
falling downward
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: sym:2
label: mortal path
literal_form: A road or path traveled by all living men, where sire and ancestors
have led
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: drifting logs
literal_form: Logs on the boundless main that meet and part again
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: heavenly home
literal_form: The skies, a blissful home in heaven, and Brahmā's heavenly home
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: falling fruit and collapsing mansion
literal_form: Ripened fruit falling to earth and a pillared mansion falling under
Time's hand
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: The crowd supports Bharata's request
summary: The people approve Bharata's words and press Rāma with the same request;
Rāma observes Bharata's sorrow and begins to console him.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Rāma's discourse on fate, time, and death
summary: Rāma states that mortals are subject to fate, death, aging, separation,
and the passage of time, using natural and social comparisons.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: The father's heavenly reward and the command to return
summary: Rāma says the dead king gained heaven through righteous rule, gifts, and
rites, then tells Bharata to restrain grief, return to the city, and obey the
father's decree while Rāma remains in the wood.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Inevitability of death and separation
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Rāma repeatedly states that death is inevitable, time diminishes life, and
joined persons or possessions must separate.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: The passage emphasizes mortality and impermanence; no resurrection or
rebirth episode is narrated here.
- id: motif:2
label: Ancestral path of all mortals
taxonomy_refs:
- afterlife_journey_map
basis: Rāma speaks of a path all living men must tread, already taken by sire and
ancestors.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage gives an image of a common mortal path, but not a detailed
map of the afterlife journey.
- id: motif:3
label: Righteous king gains heaven
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
- afterlife_journey_map
basis: The deceased king is said to have won the skies and a heavenly home through
rule, gifts, duty, largess, and rites.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The passage frames the king's heavenly reward morally and ritually; it
does not describe coronation or succession mechanics.
- id: motif:4
label: Obedience to paternal decree over personal desire
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
basis: Rāma tells Bharata to return and obey their father's decree while Rāma remains
in the forest to fulfill the father's righteous will.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage concerns royal and familial duty, but the broader political
context is not included in the supplied excerpt.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 24460-24467
quote_or_summary: The people approve Bharata's words, crowd near Rāma with the same
request, and Rāma sees his brother's mournful mood before consoling him.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 24468-24516
quote_or_summary: Rāma says he is mortal, subject to fate; death ends life; fruit
falls, mansions fall, Yamunā flows to the ocean, days and nights pass, and age
alters the body.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 24517-24538
quote_or_summary: Rāma compares kin and wealth to drifting logs that meet and part,
says all must travel the path of sire and ancestors, and compares life to torrents
falling downward.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 24539-24556
quote_or_summary: Rāma says the father won the skies and a heavenly home through
care, gifts, duty, largess, rites, and a noble life, then cast aside his aged
body and gained bliss in Brahmā's heavenly home.
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 24557-24568
quote_or_summary: Rāma tells Bharata to restrain grief, return to the city, obey
their father's decree, and says he will fulfill the father's righteous will in
the lonely wood.
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: high
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied passage. Motif taxonomy assignment
is cautious where the passage gives general themes rather than a full narrative
episode. No comparison claims were 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 external context or figure names beyond the supplied passage were added.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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