batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l41805-l41957
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record_id: batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l41805-l41957
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
passage_locator:
label: Canto XIV. The Challenge. / Canto XXVI. The Coronation. / Canto XXVIII. The
Rains. / Canto XXXI. The Envoy.; lines 41805-41957
start: '41805'
end: '41957'
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: Lakshman enters Sugriva’s richly adorned city and palace, sees signs of
pleasure and ease, and sounds his bowstring in anger. Sugriva, frightened, sends
Tara to calm him. Tara approaches, Lakshman’s anger subsides in her presence,
and he explains that Sugriva has neglected his duty and the agreed time for helping
Rama has passed.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Lakshman comes through the city in Sugriva’s name and is watched fearfully
by Vanar guards.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The city is described as ornamented with gems, gardens, shrines, palaces,
flowering and fruiting trees, perfumes, mead, honey scent, and sparkling rills.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The royal residence is protected by a crystal fence and has a high bright
roof and turrets compared to Mount Kailasa.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Vanars with weapons stand at the gate near golden portals and celestial garlands.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: Lakshman passes through seven courts and reaches the royal tower, where he
hears flute, voice, and lute and sees adorned women and attendants.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: Lakshman becomes angry and ashamed, draws his bowstring so that its clang
rings through the sky, and then withdraws modestly from the women’s view.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: Sugriva recognizes the bowstring sound, rises from his golden seat, fears
meeting Lakshman, and asks Tara to subdue Lakshman’s anger with gentle speech.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: Tara approaches Lakshman; he bows his head before her and his anger departs
at her presence.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: Tara asks Lakshman the source of his fury and who has disobeyed his will.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: Lakshman says Sugriva spends his days in pleasure, neglects duty, friends,
affairs of state, and the agreed four-month time for giving aid.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: Lakshman states that wine destroys virtue, gain, love, and joy, and that those
helped in need lose virtue if they refuse aid in return.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Lakshman
description: A princely hero and young chieftain who enters Sugriva’s city in anger
on Rama’s behalf.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- ev:10
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Sugriva
description: The Vanar king, seated in his royal residence, frightened by Lakshman’s
bowstring and accused of neglecting duty and promised aid.
role_refs:
- role:3
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:10
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Tara
description: Sugriva’s spouse and Vanar queen who approaches Lakshman and addresses
him to learn the cause of his anger.
role_refs:
- role:5
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Rama
description: Referred to by Lakshman as one of the desolate allies needing Sugriva’s
help; Lakshman’s wrath is for Rama.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:10
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Vanar guards and attendants
description: Vanars in ordered ranks, guards at the gate with weapons, and attendants
in Sugriva’s palace.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Palace women
description: Fair young adorned women in Sugriva’s palace, with garlands, rich dress,
ornaments, girdles, and anklets.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
roles:
- id: role:1
label: angry envoy or challenger
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Lakshman enters Sugriva’s abode, sounds his bowstring in anger, and confronts
the neglect of promised aid.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:10
- id: role:2
label: loyal representative of Rama
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: His wrath is said to fill his heart for Rama, and his complaint concerns
aid owed to Rama’s side.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:10
- id: role:3
label: pleasure-bound king
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Lakshman says Sugriva spends his days in pleasure, neglecting duty, friends,
and affairs of state.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:4
label: fearful ruler
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Sugriva fears meeting Lakshman after hearing the bowstring and asks Tara
to disarm his fury.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:5
label: queen mediator
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Sugriva sends Tara to subdue Lakshman’s anger, and Lakshman’s anger departs
at her presence.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:6
label: speaker of inquiry
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Tara asks Lakshman why he is angry and who has disobeyed him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:7
label: absent ally awaiting aid
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Lakshman refers to himself and Rama’s side as forlorn and desolate after
Sugriva’s delay.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:8
label: royal guards and attendants
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Vanars guard the city and gate, wield weapons, and wait in the palace.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:9
label: courtly signs of pleasure and ease
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The women’s music, ornaments, girdles, and anklets are part of the calm palace
scene that intensifies Lakshman’s anger.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: adorned royal city
literal_form: A city with gems, gardens, shrines, palaces, perfumes, mead, honey
scent, and sparkling rills.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: royal residence like Kailasa
literal_form: Sugriva’s royal residence with crystal fence, high bright roof, and
turrets compared to Mount Kailasa.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: flowering and fruiting trees
literal_form: Trees bearing blossoms and fruit in season, including golden-fruited
boughs said to be Mahendra’s gift.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: sparkling rills
literal_form: Rills that leap down sheltering hills in the city.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:5
label: sounded bowstring
literal_form: Lakshman draws his bowstring, and its clang rings through the sky.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: sym:6
label: wine and pleasure
literal_form: Draughts of wine and palace pleasures associated with Sugriva’s neglect.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: sym:7
label: four-month appointed time
literal_form: A fixed four-month period agreed for Sugriva to help Rama’s side.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Lakshman enters the Vanar city
summary: Lakshman passes into Sugriva’s city while Vanar guards raise suppliant
hands and fear his visible anger.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: The royal palace of Sugriva
summary: Lakshman observes the palace, royal residence, golden portals, garlands,
armed Vanars, and seven courts leading to the royal tower.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:3
label: Bowstring summons the king
summary: Music and courtly ease provoke Lakshman’s anger; he sounds his bowstring,
and Sugriva recognizes the warning sound and fears him.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:4
label: Tara mediates
summary: Sugriva asks Tara to calm Lakshman; she approaches, Lakshman bows, and
his anger departs at her presence before she asks the cause of his fury.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: scene:5
label: Lakshman states the grievance
summary: Lakshman says Sugriva has abandoned duty, friendship, affairs of state,
and the agreed four-month obligation to provide aid.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: neglected pact of reciprocal aid
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
- sacred_exchange
basis: Lakshman recalls an agreed four-month time for Sugriva to help and states
that those who are helped in need lose virtue if they refuse aid in return.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage frames the obligation ethically and politically; the supplied
taxonomy terms are broader than the literal wording.
- id: motif:2
label: wrathful envoy challenges a pleasure-bound ruler
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Lakshman arrives in anger, sounds his bowstring, and rebukes Sugriva for
spending days in pleasure while neglecting duty and friends.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: This is a passage-level narrative pattern rather than a supplied taxonomy
motif family.
- id: motif:3
label: queen or woman mediator pacifies male anger
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Sugriva sends Tara to use gentle speech; Lakshman bows before her and his
anger departs at her presence.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The passage explicitly attributes the calming effect to Tara’s presence,
but wider implications should not be inferred without other passages.
- id: motif:4
label: wine and sensual pleasure as causes of neglected duty
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Lakshman says Sugriva is a slave to pleasure, bound by pleasure, and that
draughts of wine destroy virtue, gain, love, and joy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
confidence: high
cautions: The moral generalization is spoken by Lakshman and should be treated as
character speech within the passage.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 41805-41817
quote_or_summary: Lakshman enters through the city; Vanar guardians raise suppliant
hands, gaze at him, and fear his anger.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 41818-41843
quote_or_summary: The city is described with gems, gardens, shrines, palaces, flowering
and fruiting trees, heavenly ornaments, perfumes, mead and honey scent, and sparkling
rills.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 41844-41857
quote_or_summary: Sugriva’s royal residence is described as protected by a crystal
fence, bright with roof and turrets like Mount Kailasa, and shaded by golden-fruited
trees said to be Mahendra’s gift.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 41858-41861
quote_or_summary: A band of Vanars wait with weapons at the gate near golden portals
and celestial garlands.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 41862-41883
quote_or_summary: Lakshman enters Sugriva’s abode, passes seven courts, reaches
the royal tower, hears music, and sees young adorned women and calm attendants.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 41884-41893
quote_or_summary: Hearing and seeing the palace ease, Lakshman feels rage and shame,
draws his bowstring until it clangs through the sky, then withdraws modestly from
the women’s view while angry for Rama.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 41894-41923
quote_or_summary: Sugriva recognizes the bowstring sound, rises in fear, and asks
Tara to calm Lakshman with gentle speech before Sugriva meets him.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 41924-41935
quote_or_summary: Tara approaches Lakshman; seeing the Vanar queen, Lakshman bows
his head and his anger departs. The passage also notes she is made bold by wine
and by Lakshman’s calmed look.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:9
type: quote
locator: lines 41936-41941
quote_or_summary: "“Whence springs thy burning fury? say: / Who dares thy will to
disobey?”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quote from public domain translation.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 41944-41975
quote_or_summary: Lakshman tells Tara that Sugriva spends his days in pleasure,
neglects duty, friends, state affairs, and the agreed four months in which he
should have helped Rama’s side.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 41976-41957
quote_or_summary: Lakshman says wine does not incline the heart to virtue or gain,
destroys virtue, gain, love, and joy, and that those helped in need lose virtue
if they refuse aid in return.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary supplied; locator reflects supplied passage
end although line numbering in the excerpt appears internally inconsistent after
line 41957.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: The main narrative sequence and figures are explicit. Motif taxonomy mapping
is more tentative where broad taxonomy labels such as covenant or sacred_exchange
are applied to a political-ethical pledge of aid. No comparison claims were added
because the passage itself does not support an external comparison.
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 provided passage and metadata. Evidence locator ev:11 follows the user-supplied end line even though the excerpted text continues beyond the nominal end in the displayed passage.
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