batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l41158-l41297
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record_id: batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l41158-l41297
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
passage_locator:
label: Canto XII. The Palm Trees. / Canto XIV. The Challenge. / Canto XXVI. The
Coronation. / Canto XXVIII. The Rains.; lines 41158-41297
start: '41158'
end: '41297'
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: Rāma addresses his brother during the rains on Mālyavat, describing clouds,
rain, mountains, trees, lightning, and flooded roads through a sequence of similes.
The season reminds him of Sītā and delays action against Rāvan. He contrasts Sugrīva’s
regained realm and queen with his own loss, but says he will wait for Sugrīva’s
promised aid. After the rains clear, Sugrīva is absorbed in pleasure with Rumā
and Tārā, neglecting obligations, while Hanumān prepares to counsel him according
to duty.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Rāma speaks to his brother on the dark-wooded side of Mālyavat and points
out chains of clouds filling the sky.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The clouds are described as having borne a load from sunbeams, drunk the seas,
and given birth to rain on the earth.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The rain-drenched ground is described as pouring out floods like tears, with
a comparison to Sītā in fear.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: A rainy rocky steep is compared to Sugrīva when royal balm was poured on his
head.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The hills are described with cloud garments, torrents like sacred cords, and
cavern winds like undertones of voices.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Lightning flashing through a dark cloud reminds Rāma of Sītā pressed against
the demon’s breast.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The rainy season stops birds from flying, closes lilies, turns captains homeward,
and blocks roads and royal campaigns with streams.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: Rāma says Sugrīva is at ease after his foe is overthrown and after queen and
realm have been restored to him.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: Rāma says he has been deprived of both realm and queen, and that the rains
delay action against Rāvan.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: Rāma says he will wait for Sugrīva, trusting that Sugrīva will remember the
aid and debt owed to him.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:11
text: After the rainy sky clears, Sugrīva forgets or ignores the claims of faith
and lives in pleasure with Rumā and Tārā.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:12
text: Hanumān, described as wise, true, scripturally learned, and trained in duty,
seeks to address Sugrīva with prudent counsel.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Rāma
description: The speaker who observes the rains, remembers Sītā, laments the loss
of realm and queen, and waits for Sugrīva’s aid.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Rāma’s brother
description: The brother addressed by Rāma during the rainy-season description.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Sītā
description: Rāma’s queen or beloved, described through similes of fear and recalled
as held against the demon’s breast.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Sugrīva
description: A restored ruler whose foe has been overthrown, whose queen and realm
are his again, and who later neglects obligations in pleasure.
role_refs:
- role:5
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Rāvan
description: Named by Rāma as the foe whose overthrow seems difficult while the
rains delay action.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Demon
description: The being in Rāma’s recollection against whose breast Sītā is pressed.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Rumā
description: A royal bride by Sugrīva’s side during his time of pleasure.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Tārā
description: A bride described as dearer, with whom Sugrīva spends joyous days and
nights.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Hanumān
description: A sage and true counsellor, learned in scripture and duty, who approaches
Sugrīva with prudent speech.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Indra
description: A divine figure used in a simile for Sugrīva’s enjoyment of paradise-like
pleasures among enticing nymphs.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
roles:
- id: role:1
label: rain-season speaker and observer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Rāma calls his brother to look at the clouds, hills, lightning, rain, and
seasonal changes.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: role:2
label: brother addressed by the speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The passage opens with Rāma saying, “See, brother, see.”
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:3
label: bereaved and delayed hero
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Rāma says he is deprived of realm and queen, that the rains halt action,
and that Rāvan appears difficult to defeat.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:4
label: lost queen or beloved
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Rāma compares the earth’s tears to Sītā’s fear and says he is deprived of
his queen.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: role:5
label: restored ruler and ally
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Sugrīva is described as having his foe overthrown and his queen and realm
restored.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:6
label: obligation-neglecting pleasure seeker
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: After the rains clear, Sugrīva is said to forget or ignore faith, pass time
in ease, and live with pleasure as guide.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:7
label: opposing abductor or foe
assigned_to:
- fig:5
- fig:6
basis: The passage recalls Sītā pressed to a demon’s breast and names Rāvan as the
foe against whom action is delayed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: role:8
label: royal bride or consort
assigned_to:
- fig:7
- fig:8
basis: Rumā and Tārā are named as brides by Sugrīva’s side during his revelry.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:9
label: wise counsellor
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Hanumān is described as sage, true, learned in scripture, trained in duty,
and prepared to give prudent counsel.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:10
label: divine comparison for pleasure
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: Sugrīva’s revelry is compared to Indra enticed by nymphs in Paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: monsoon rain and clouds
literal_form: Clouds, showers, streams, floods, torrents, and rain-swollen roads
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: sym:2
label: Mālyavat and rainy hills
literal_form: Dark-wooded mountain side, rocky steep, hills, misty peaks, and caverns
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: rain-season trees and flowers
literal_form: Camphor trees, odorous shrubs, flowering shrubs, lilies, and jasmine
blooms
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: lightning in dark cloud
literal_form: Red and golden lightning flashing through dark clouds
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: full moon and Sarjū river
literal_form: Full moon and the fierce, roaring Sarjū
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:6
label: royal balm
literal_form: Balm poured on Sugrīva’s head in a coronation-like comparison
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Rāma’s monsoon vision on Mālyavat
summary: Rāma asks his brother to look at the clouded sky, rain, breeze, hills,
trees, lightning, and drenched earth, interpreting the landscape through vivid
similes.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:2
label: Rains delay the campaign
summary: Rāma describes the rainy season as halting travel and war, says he is deprived
of realm and queen, and decides to wait for Sugrīva’s later aid against Rāvan.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:3
label: Sugrīva’s pleasure after the rains
summary: When the sky clears, Sugrīva forgets or ignores obligations and spends
time in pleasure with Rumā and Tārā, leaving power in courtiers’ hands.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:10
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:4
label: Hanumān prepares counsel
summary: Hanumān, characterized by wisdom, scripture, duty, and eloquence, seeks
a gentle opening to counsel Sugrīva and wake him from neglect.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:9
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: monsoon as generative seasonal cycle
taxonomy_refs:
- seasonal_cycle
basis: The passage presents clouds as conceiving, drinking the seas, giving birth
to rain, transforming the landscape, blocking roads and campaigns, and later clearing.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: This is a passage-level seasonal pattern rather than a full independent
mythic narrative.
- id: motif:2
label: stolen or lost beloved motivating heroic action
taxonomy_refs:
- stolen_beloved
basis: Rāma recalls Sītā in the demon’s grasp, says he is deprived of his queen,
and frames action against Rāvan as delayed but expected.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The abduction itself is recalled, not narrated in full, within this passage.
- id: motif:3
label: restored kingship and royal legitimacy
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
basis: Sugrīva is associated with royal anointing imagery, restored realm and queen,
and delegated royal power after his enemy is overthrown.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage alludes to restoration and coronation imagery but does not
narrate the full enthronement.
- id: motif:4
label: reciprocal obligation after aid
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: Rāma says Sugrīva should remember his succour and not deny the debt when
the proper time comes.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage supports a debt-of-aid pattern; the broader sacred status
of the exchange is not explicit here.
- id: motif:5
label: wise counsellor recalls ruler to duty
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Hanumān is described as wise, scripturally learned, duty-trained, and skilled
in prudent speech intended to wake Sugrīva from neglect.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: Only the introduction to the counsel is included; the counsel’s full content
is outside the supplied passage.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage explicitly compares Sugrīva’s pleasure with Rumā and Tārā to
Indra being enticed by nymphs in Paradise.
claim_level: same_function
target: Indra among nymphs in Paradise as a model for pleasure that distracts a
ruler
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: This is an explicit simile within the passage, not evidence by itself
for historical contact or a separate mythic borrowing.
- id: claim:2
claim: The monsoon description fits a seasonal-cycle pattern in which rains transform
nature and suspend travel and warfare until the season changes.
claim_level: same_motif
target: seasonal_cycle
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The claim is limited to the supplied passage’s seasonal imagery and
social effects.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: 41158-41167
quote_or_summary: Rāma calls to his brother on Mālyavat and describes cloud chains
filling the sky; the clouds are said to have conceived from sunbeams, drunk the
seas, and dropped offspring on earth.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: 41168-41185
quote_or_summary: Rāma describes cloudy stairs toward the sun, the reddened sky,
the drenched ground pouring tears like fearful Sītā, and a cool cloud-born breeze
through camphor trees.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: 41186-41203
quote_or_summary: A rainy rocky steep is compared to Sugrīva receiving royal balm;
hills are compared to students with cloud garments, torrents as sacred cords,
and winds sounding in caverns.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: 41204-41212
quote_or_summary: Lightning through a dark cloud recalls Sītā pressed against the
demon’s breast; rain revives shrubs and flowers but intensifies Rāma’s longing.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: 41213-41231
quote_or_summary: Birds cease flight, lilies close, jasmine opens, captains turn
home, roads and royal ambitions vanish under streams, sacred chants begin, the
harvest is stored, and the Sarjū roars under the full moon.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: 41232-41252
quote_or_summary: Rāma contrasts Sugrīva’s ease after regaining queen and realm
with his own loss of realm and queen; the rains delay action against Rāvan, so
he waits for Sugrīva to remember his debt.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: 41253-41275
quote_or_summary: After the sky clears, Sugrīva forgets or ignores obligations,
lives in pleasure with Rumā and Tārā, is compared to Indra enticed by nymphs in
Paradise, and leaves power to courtiers.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: 41276-41297
quote_or_summary: Hanumān, described as sage, true, scripturally learned, duty-trained,
prudent, and eloquent, seeks to reach Sugrīva’s mind and begins salutary counsel.
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: medium
notes: The passage is clear for seasonal imagery, Rāma’s delayed quest, Sugrīva’s
neglect, and Hanumān’s counsel. Motif taxonomy assignments beyond seasonal cycle
and stolen beloved require review because some are allusive rather than fully
narrated in the supplied lines.
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: |-
Used only the supplied passage and metadata; comparison claims are limited to explicit simile or directly supported motif-family pattern.
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