batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l33882-l34028
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record_id: batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l33882-l34028
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
passage_locator:
label: Canto XXVIII. Khara Dismounted. / Canto XLIII. The Wondrous Deer. / Canto
XLVI. The Guest. / Canto LI. The Combat.; lines 33882-34028
start: '33882'
end: '34028'
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: Rávaṇ, after giving orders to eight giants, goes to Sítá’s chamber in Lanká.
He finds her grieving under guard, shows her his wealthy palace, gardens, pools,
servants, power, island fortress, and captured chariot, and urges her to abandon
hope of Ráma and become his wife and queen. Sítá remains distressed and wipes
away tears while Rávaṇ continues pleading, even speaking of laying his heads at
her feet.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Rávaṇ gives commands to eight strong giants before going to the chamber where
the lady lies.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The lady is described as weighed down by grief, weeping, and watched by a
throng of fiends.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Rávaṇ shows the lady his abode, including gold-bright palaces, jewels, decorated
pillars, gardens, pools, and lakes.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Rávaṇ claims that three hundred million giants serve him, with a thousand
chosen attendants waiting on him.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: Rávaṇ offers his power, wealth, life, and household to the lady and asks her
to become his wife and rule the women in his hall.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: Rávaṇ says Lanká is an island one hundred leagues long, encompassed by the
ocean, and impossible for gods or fiends to conquer.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: Rávaṇ urges the lady to leave Ráma to his fate and says she should not hope
to see Ráma’s face again.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: Rávaṇ offers the lady rule over Lanká and speaks of consecrating balm being
shed over her head.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: Rávaṇ points to a bright, swift chariot that he says he forced the Lord of
Gold to yield.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:10
text: The lady presses a corner of her garment to her cheek and wipes away a falling
tear.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:11
text: Rávaṇ renews his pleading, asks for pity, and says he lays his heads at the
lady’s feet.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Rávaṇ
description: A giant monarch and rover of the night who commands giants, displays
his wealth and power, and pleads with Sítá to become his wife.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:9
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Sítá / Maithil lady
description: A gentle lady held in grief among watching fiends; Rávaṇ addresses
her as Sítá and asks her to become his wife and queen.
role_refs:
- role:3
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Eight giants
description: Eight strong and brave giants who receive Rávaṇ’s commandment.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Fiend guards
description: A throng of fiends watch around the grieving lady.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Giants serving Rávaṇ
description: Rávaṇ claims three hundred million giants serve him, with a thousand
selected attendants waiting on him.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Ráma
description: The absent figure whom Rávaṇ calls a poor mortal, expelled from home
and royal sway, and urges Sítá to abandon.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Lord of Gold
description: The former possessor of the chariot whom Rávaṇ says he forced to yield
it.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
roles:
- id: role:1
label: giant monarch
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage calls Rávaṇ the monarch of the giant brood and describes many
giants serving him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:9
- id: role:2
label: pleading suitor
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Rávaṇ repeatedly asks the lady to become his wife and describes himself as
burning with love.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:9
- id: role:3
label: grieving captive
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The lady is surrounded by fiends who keep watch as she weeps and is called
a shrinking captive.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: desired queen-consort
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Rávaṇ offers her rule over his hall and Lanká if she becomes his wife.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: role:5
label: boaster of invincible power
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Rávaṇ claims no god, sage, spirit, or other being can match his power or
take the lady from Lanká.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:6
label: giant retainer
assigned_to:
- fig:3
- fig:5
basis: The eight giants receive Rávaṇ’s command, and Rávaṇ says millions of giants
serve him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: role:7
label: captivity guard
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The fiends keep watch around the weeping lady.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:8
label: absent husband or beloved
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Rávaṇ tells Sítá to leave Ráma to his fate and not hope to see his face again.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:9
label: dispossessed owner of chariot
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Rávaṇ says he forced the Lord of Gold to yield the chariot.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: ocean-encircled island fortress
literal_form: Lanká, an island one hundred leagues long and encompassed by the ocean
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:2
label: palace wealth
literal_form: gold, jewels, diamond, lazulite, ivory, crystal, silver, gardens,
pools, and lakes
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: captured celestial chariot
literal_form: a wide, high, bright, swift chariot once possessed by Rávaṇ’s brother
and yielded by the Lord of Gold
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:4
label: consecrating balm
literal_form: balm to be shed over Sítá’s brows and head as queen of Lanká
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: tear and garment
literal_form: Sítá’s garment pressed to her cheek to wipe away a falling tear
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Rávaṇ goes to the guarded chamber
summary: After commanding eight giants, Rávaṇ goes to the chamber where Sítá lies
grieving under the watch of fiends.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Display of palace and gardens
summary: Rávaṇ leads the sorrowing Sítá through his rich abode, showing palaces,
jewels, decorated pillars, chambers, gardens, pools, and lakes.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Offer of marriage, wealth, and rule
summary: Rávaṇ claims vast giant power, offers Sítá his pomp, life, and household,
and asks her to be his wife and rule his women.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Boast of Lanká’s invincibility and denial of rescue
summary: Rávaṇ describes Lanká as an ocean-encircled island beyond conquest and
urges Sítá to abandon hope of Ráma rescuing her.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:5
label: Promise of queenship and chariot ride
summary: Rávaṇ promises Sítá rule over Lanká, royal consecration, riches, and a
ride in his captured chariot.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:6
label: Sítá’s tears and Rávaṇ’s renewed plea
summary: Sítá wipes away a tear with her garment while Rávaṇ continues to plead
and asks pity from her.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: stolen beloved held in an enemy stronghold
taxonomy_refs:
- stolen_beloved
basis: Sítá is described as a guarded, weeping captive, while Rávaṇ urges her to
abandon Ráma and insists no one can take her from Lanká.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage presupposes the capture rather than narrating the original
taking.
- id: motif:2
label: coercive wooing through wealth and sovereignty
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Rávaṇ shows Sítá his riches, claims immense power, offers her queenship over
Lanká, and repeatedly asks her to become his wife.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: This is a passage-level pattern rather than a supplied taxonomy motif
family.
- id: motif:3
label: isolated invincible island fortress
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Rávaṇ describes Lanká as ocean-encircled, one hundred leagues long, and unconquerable
even by gods and fiends.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The claim is made by Rávaṇ in direct speech and may be boastful rather
than confirmed by narration.
- id: motif:4
label: royal consecration offered to captive woman
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
basis: Rávaṇ invites Sítá to reign over Lanká and speaks of consecrating balm being
shed on her head.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The offered legitimacy is coercive and rhetorical; the passage does not
depict an actual coronation.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: 'The passage fits the stolen-beloved motif family at the level of situation:
a woman associated with an absent beloved is held under hostile guard while the
captor urges her to abandon hope of rescue.'
claim_level: same_motif
target: stolen_beloved motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The abduction itself is not narrated in this excerpt; the classification
rests on captivity, hostile guarding, and pressure to abandon Ráma.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 33882-33891
quote_or_summary: Rávaṇ commands eight strong giants and then goes to the fair chamber
where the lady lies.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 33892-33903
quote_or_summary: "“Weighed down by woe” and watched by “the throng of fiends” as
she wept; the passage also calls her a “shrinking captive.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 33904-33931
quote_or_summary: Rávaṇ shows Sítá palaces blazing with gold, birds, jewels, decorated
pillars, chambers with golden nets, bright gardens, pools, and lakes.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 33932-33952
quote_or_summary: Rávaṇ claims three hundred million giants serve him, offers his
power and life to Sítá, and asks her to be his wife and rule the thousand women
in his hall.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 33953-33989
quote_or_summary: Rávaṇ says his ocean-encircled island cannot be conquered, claims
no being can match him, tells Sítá to leave Ráma to his fate, and says no one
can take her from his arms.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 33990-34007
quote_or_summary: Rávaṇ offers Sítá reign over Lanká, royal consecration with balm,
freedom from sorrow, garlands, gold, gems, and rich attire.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 34008-34018
quote_or_summary: Rávaṇ points to a chariot once possessed by his brother and forced
from the Lord of Gold, describing it as bright as the sun and swift as thought.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 34024-34028
quote_or_summary: Sítá presses a corner of her garment to her cheek and wipes away
a falling tear.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 34029-34048
quote_or_summary: Rávaṇ renews his pleading, asks Sítá not to fear blame, says he
lays his heads at her feet, and asks pity as a prostrate slave.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The passage clearly supports figures, setting, actions, and the captivity/wooing
pattern. Motif labels beyond the supplied stolen_beloved family are descriptive
and require review.
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 the supplied passage and metadata were used. Some locator ranges extend slightly beyond the requested end line because the provided passage text includes the continued pleading after the line-range label.
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