batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l35230-l35390
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record_id: batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l35230-l35390
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
passage_locator:
label: Canto XLIII. The Wondrous Deer. / Canto XLVI. The Guest. / Canto LI. The
Combat. / Canto LX. Lakshman Reproved.; lines 35230-35390
start: '35230'
end: '35390'
translation: The Ramayan of Valmiki
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: "“Unless the Gods in heaven who dwell / Restore my Sítá safe and well...
/ The triple world will devastate.”"
summary: Ráma and Lakshmaṇ inspect traces at the scene of Sítá’s disappearance,
including footprints, ornaments, broken weapons, a ruined chariot, dead animals,
and a dead driver. Ráma concludes that shape-changing fiends or giants have seized,
killed, or stolen Sítá. Overcome with grief and anger, he threatens to destroy
demons, gods, living beings, and the triple world unless Sítá is restored. He
arms himself with bow and arrow and is compared to Rudra and to a world-ending
fiery force.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Ráma finds the footprint of a fiend and smaller traces where Sítá had fled
while crying for help.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Ráma identifies Sítá’s dropped earrings, torn garlands, and glittering ornaments
on the ground.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The ground contains fragments of a mighty bow, golden mail, a broken royal
shade, blood-stained asses, a pierced chariot, spent shafts, split quivers, and
a dead driver still holding whip and reins.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Ráma says the fiends wear strange disguises and that giants change their forms
by magic art.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: Ráma considers that Sítá has been slain, eaten, or stolen and hurried away.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: Ráma threatens to slay life in the triple world unless the gods restore Sítá
safe and well.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: 'Ráma describes cosmic disorder: stars falling, moon darkened, fire quenched,
wind stilled, sun darkened, mountains crushed, waters dried, plants and trees
dead, and the sea lost.'
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: Ráma’s eyes grow red, he arranges his bark coat and hermit braids, receives
his bow from Lakshmaṇ, strings it, and places a shining deadly dart upon it.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: The narrator compares Ráma in fury to Rudra before slaying Tripur and to one
who ends the worlds with fire.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:10
text: Ráma says that unless he sees Sítá again, the world will be destroyed and
serpent lords, gods of air, Gandharvas, and men will share the doom.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Ráma
description: Hero searching for Sítá, interpreting the traces, grieving, threatening
destruction, and arming himself with bow and dart.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Lakshmaṇ
description: Ráma’s brother and addressee, present at the search; he gives Ráma
his bow.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:7
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Sítá
description: Ráma’s missing beloved, represented by her traces, ornaments, and Ráma’s
reports of her flight and possible seizure.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:8
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: unidentified fiend or giant abductor
description: A figure or group inferred from a fiend’s footprint, giant tread, and
Ráma’s statements about disguised, form-changing fiends and giants.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: dead chariot driver
description: A dead driver lying with hands still holding whip and reins.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: gods and other beings of the worlds
description: Gods, Immortals, Gandharvas, Yakshas, Kinnars, men, Daityas, Dánavas,
Rákshases, serpent lords, and gods of air named as witnesses or targets of Ráma’s
threatened wrath.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
roles:
- id: role:1
label: searching husband and observer of traces
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Ráma searches the ground, studies footprints and objects, and reports his
findings to Lakshmaṇ.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:2
label: wrathful destroyer-threatener
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Ráma vows to slay life and devastate the triple world unless Sítá is restored.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: role:3
label: brother and assistant
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Lakshmaṇ is repeatedly addressed by Ráma and hands Ráma his bow.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:7
- id: role:4
label: missing or stolen beloved
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Sítá’s traces and ornaments mark her disappearance, and Ráma says she may
have been stolen or carried off.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: suspected shape-changing abductor
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Ráma identifies fiends and giants who wear disguises and change forms by
magic art as responsible for Sítá’s seizure or loss.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:6
label: dead retainer or vehicle-driver
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The driver is found dead with whip and reins still in hand.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:7
label: cosmic witnesses and threatened beings
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Ráma names gods, demons, serpent lords, Gandharvas, and men among those who
will witness or suffer his wrath.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: footprints and traces
literal_form: Fiend footprint and smaller traces of Sítá’s flight.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: dropped ornaments
literal_form: Sítá’s golden earrings, torn garlands, and glittering ornaments.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: ruined martial vehicle and weapons
literal_form: Broken bow, golden mail, broken shade, blood-stained asses, pierced
chariot, shafts, quivers, and dead driver.
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: bow and deadly dart
literal_form: Ráma’s bow, strung by him, with a flashing deadly dart laid upon it.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:5
label: world-ending fire
literal_form: Fire imagery in Ráma’s fiery glance, fires of Fate, and comparison
to one who ends worlds with fire.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: sym:6
label: cosmic order overturned
literal_form: Falling stars, darkened moon and sun, quenched fire, stilled wind,
crushed mountains, dried lakes and rivers, dead creepers, plants, and trees, and
lost sea.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
- mountain
- water
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:7
label: serpent lords
literal_form: Serpent lords named among those who would share the doom.
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs:
- serpent
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Search of the abduction ground
summary: Ráma searches the ground and sees the footprint of a fiend, Sítá’s traces,
and signs of her desperate flight.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Recognition of ornaments and wreckage
summary: Ráma points out Sítá’s fallen ornaments and surveys broken weapons, chariot
remains, blood-stained draft animals, quivers, and a dead driver.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Inference of seizure by shape-changing fiends
summary: Ráma concludes that disguised, magic-form-changing fiends or giants have
seized, killed, eaten, or stolen Sítá.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Threat of universal destruction
summary: In grief and wrath, Ráma threatens to kill all life, destroy demons and
gods, and overturn the triple world unless Sítá is restored.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: scene:5
label: Ráma arms himself
summary: Ráma’s body shows anger, he arranges his ascetic clothing and hair, takes
his bow from Lakshmaṇ, strings it, and places a shining dart upon it.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: stolen beloved
taxonomy_refs:
- stolen_beloved
basis: Sítá is missing, her traces and ornaments are found, and Ráma says she has
been seized, hurried away, or stolen.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The passage preserves Ráma’s inference at the scene; it does not directly
narrate the abduction itself within this excerpt.
- id: motif:2
label: shape-changing fiend as abductor
taxonomy_refs:
- shapeshifter
basis: Ráma attributes the loss to fiends or giants who wear strange disguises and
change their forms by magic art.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The passage states Ráma’s identification of such beings; the excerpt does
not show a transformation occurring.
- id: motif:3
label: world-destroying wrath
taxonomy_refs:
- world_destroying_fire
basis: Ráma threatens to devastate the triple world with the fires of Fate, darken
celestial bodies, dry waters, destroy life, and bring doom to gods, demons, serpent
lords, and men.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The destruction is threatened speech in response to Sítá’s loss, not an
accomplished event in the excerpt.
- id: motif:4
label: heroic quest initiated by traces of a lost woman
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: Ráma reads footprints, ornaments, and wreckage to understand Sítá’s disappearance
and the direction of violence against her.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The excerpt emphasizes search and inference; a wider quest pattern is
only incipient in this passage.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The narrator explicitly compares Ráma’s furious appearance to Rudra when
he yearned to slay the demon Tripur.
claim_level: visual_similarity
target: Rudra before slaying Tripur
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: This is a narrated simile about appearance and wrath, not evidence
by itself for identity between Ráma and Rudra.
- id: claim:2
claim: Ráma’s threatened destruction is associated by simile with a world-ending
fiery power.
claim_level: same_function
target: world-ending fire destruction pattern
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage frames the world-ending fire as comparison and threat;
the destruction is not carried out in the excerpt.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 35230-35239
quote_or_summary: Ráma searches further, finds a fiend’s footprint and Sítá’s smaller
traces where she fled in despair crying for help before a giant’s tread.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 35240-35248
quote_or_summary: Ráma tells Lakshmaṇ that Sítá’s golden earrings, torn garlands,
and glittering ornaments lie on the ground.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 35249-35283
quote_or_summary: Ráma points out fragments of a mighty bow, golden mail, a broken
royal shade, blood-stained goblin-faced asses with golden harness, a broken chariot,
spent arrows, split quivers, and a dead driver holding whip and reins.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 35284-35297
quote_or_summary: Ráma traces a giant-like foot and says his hatred grows against
giants who change forms by magic; he says Sítá has been slain, eaten, or stolen
and hurried away.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 35298-35335
quote_or_summary: Ráma says he is changed from gentleness to vengeance, will slay
life, sweep away fiends, and devastate the triple world unless the gods restore
Sítá safe and well.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 35336-35351
quote_or_summary: 'Ráma describes cosmic destruction: stars falling, moon veiled,
fire quenched, wind stilled, sun darkened, mountains crushed, rivers and lakes
dried, plants and trees dead, and sea lost.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 35352-35375
quote_or_summary: Ráma’s eyes redden; he adjusts his bark coat and hermit braids,
is likened to Rudra before slaying Tripur, receives his bow from Lakshmaṇ, strings
it, lays on a shining dart, and is compared to one who ends worlds with fire.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 35376-35390
quote_or_summary: Ráma says that unless he sees Sítá again, the world will be destroyed
and serpent lords, gods of air, Gandharvas, and men will share the doom.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Extraction is based only on the provided passage. Motifs for stolen beloved,
shapeshifter, and world-destroying wrath are strongly supported; quest framing
is more tentative because the excerpt focuses on search and threat rather than
a completed quest.
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 sources were used. Taxonomy references were limited to the supplied motif families and symbols.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg__l35230-l35390
passage_sha256=87b6e264a9c5dcbcb3539b2b3a59e9fb8d7175deef65e13a82f1661ed4ed58bb