batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l45535-l45580
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record_id: batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l45535-l45580
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
passage_locator:
label: Canto III. The Guardian Goddess. / Canto IV. Within The City. / Canto VI.
The Court. / Canto VIII. The Enchanted Car.; lines 45535-45580
start: '45535'
end: '45580'
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: The passage describes a jeweled crystal dais with couches and canopy, where
the giant king sleeps in luxury among his slumbering spouses. The Vánar approaches
to inspect him, observes his immense body, ornaments, scars, and serpent-like
breath, then notices Mandodarí and mistakenly thinks her beauty indicates she
is the Maithil queen he seeks.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A crystal dais with soft couches, gold, gems, and a pale canopy is set apart
in the hall.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Female figures are described as fanning the faces of the sleepers.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The monarch of the giants lies asleep on a splendid couch on soft skins of
deer and sheep.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The giant king is perfumed with sandal scent, decorated with golden ornament,
dressed in glittering robes, and has fiery eyes closed in sleep.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The Vánar comes nearer to view the monarch of the fiends.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: The giant king is stretched supine, fatigued with play and drunk with wine.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The giant king’s breath is compared to hissing serpents and shakes his monstrous
frame.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: The king’s arms are adorned with gold and bracelets and are compared to towering
shafts bearing Indra’s flag.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: Scars from Airávat’s tusk and marks from the thunderbolt appear on the giant
king’s breast and shoulders.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:10
text: The spouses of the giant king sleep around their lord and are adorned with
sparkling earrings.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:11
text: Mandodarí, named as the favourite queen, is seen by her husband’s side.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:12
text: The Vánar judges Mandodarí fairer than the other royal ladies and concludes
she must be the Maithil queen he has come to seek.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: the Vánar
description: The observer who approaches the sleeping giant king and tries to identify
the Maithil queen.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:10
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: monarch of the giants / monarch of the fiends / giant king
description: A dark, ornamented king sleeping on a splendid couch, drunk with wine,
with serpent-like breath, great arms, and battle scars.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: spouses of the giant king
description: Royal women sleeping around the giant king, wearing sparkling earrings
and described as fair to look upon.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Mandodarí
description: The favourite queen beside her husband, with a youthful face whose
beauty lights the place.
role_refs:
- role:4
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: the Maithil queen
description: The woman whom the Vánar has come to seek; in this passage she is inferred
by the Vánar, not directly identified as present.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
roles:
- id: role:1
label: searching observer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The Vánar approaches to view the giant king and says he has come to seek
the Maithil queen.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:10
- id: role:2
label: sleeping giant ruler
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The passage calls him the monarch of the giants or fiends and describes him
asleep on the couch.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:3
label: sleeping royal spouses
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: They are explicitly called the spouses of the giant king and are sleeping
around him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:4
label: favourite queen
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Mandodarí is named as the favourite queen by her husband’s side.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:5
label: mistakenly identified woman
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The Vánar thinks Mandodarí’s beauty means she must be the Maithil queen.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:6
label: sought queen
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The Vánar says the Maithil queen is the matchless dame he has come to seek.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: crystal dais and jeweled couch
literal_form: Crystal dais, couches, gold, gems, and soft skins arranged for repose.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: sym:2
label: pale canopy
literal_form: A canopy pale like moonlight over the couches.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: serpent-like breath
literal_form: The giant king’s breath compared to hissing serpents.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- serpent
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: Mandar mountain simile
literal_form: The sleeping king is compared to Mandar’s mighty hill with flowering
trees on its slope.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: sym:5
label: marks of divine combat
literal_form: Scars from Airávat’s tusk and dints from the thunderbolt on the king’s
body.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:6
label: Indra’s flag shafts simile
literal_form: The giant king’s arms compared to towering shafts bearing Indra’s
flag.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Luxury sleeping chamber of the giant king
summary: A crystal dais, jeweled couches, a moon-pale canopy, and fanning female
figures frame the sleeping area.
figure_refs: []
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: The Vánar observes the sleeping giant ruler
summary: The Vánar approaches the giant king, who sleeps supine, ornamented, drunk
with wine, breathing like hissing serpents, and bearing marks of earlier violent
encounters.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:11
- id: scene:3
label: Mistaken identification of Mandodarí
summary: The giant king’s spouses sleep around him; Mandodarí lies by his side,
and the Vánar, impressed by her beauty, thinks she must be the Maithil queen he
seeks.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: search for the missing beloved or queen in an enemy palace
taxonomy_refs:
- stolen_beloved
basis: The Vánar identifies the Maithil queen as the matchless woman he has come
to seek while surveying the giant king’s sleeping women.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage states that the Maithil queen is being sought, but this excerpt
alone does not narrate her abduction or explicitly call her stolen.
- id: motif:2
label: heroic infiltration and inspection of a ruler’s private chamber
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The Vánar comes near to view the sleeping monarch of the fiends in a secluded
luxurious sleeping space.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The broader mission context is only partly visible in this excerpt.
- id: motif:3
label: misrecognition based on extraordinary beauty
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The Vánar judges Mandodarí to be the sought Maithil queen because her beauty
surpasses the other royal ladies.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: The passage records the Vánar’s thought, but the correction of the mistake
is outside the excerpt.
- id: motif:4
label: demon king as monstrous sleeper marked by divine conflict
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The giant king is shown sleeping with serpent-like breath, vast arms, and
bodily scars from Airávat and the thunderbolt.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: No external taxonomy reference is assigned beyond literal symbols supported
by the passage.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: 45535-45543
quote_or_summary: "“Apart a dais of crystal rose / With couches ... / Adorned with
gold and gems ... / A canopy was o’er them spread / Pale as ... moon beams”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: 45544-45545
quote_or_summary: "“female figures ... / The faces of the sleepers fanned”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: 45546-45556
quote_or_summary: The giant monarch lies asleep on a splendid couch with deer and
sheep skins, sandal perfume, golden ornament, glittering robes, and closed fiery
eyes.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: 45559-45564
quote_or_summary: "“Near and more near the Vánar ... / The monarch of the fiends
to view” and sees him “stretched supine ... drunk with wine.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: 45565-45566
quote_or_summary: "“His breath like hissing serpents’ came.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: 45567-45570
quote_or_summary: His gold-adorned, bracelet-wearing arms extend huge like shafts
carrying Indra’s flag.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: 45571-45574
quote_or_summary: The giant king’s breast shows red scars from Airávat’s tusk, and
his shoulders show dints from the thunderbolt.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: 45575-45578
quote_or_summary: The giant king’s spouses sleep around him, bright with sparkling
earrings and fair as the moon.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: 45579-45582
quote_or_summary: Mandodarí, the favourite queen, is seen by her husband’s side,
her youthful face giving soft brightness to the place.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: quote
locator: 45583-45588
quote_or_summary: 'The Vánar sees her as fairest and thinks: “The Maithil queen
must surely be.”'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: 45555-45558
quote_or_summary: The sleeping king is compared to Mandar’s mighty hill covered
with flowering trees.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source summarized.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied excerpt. Some evidence locators
are approximate within the provided line range because the passage text extends
beyond the nominal ending line in the prompt.
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 comparison claims were added because the passage itself does not explicitly support historical, cross-textual, or broader comparative claims beyond internal similes and supported taxonomy symbol references.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg__l45535-l45580
passage_sha256=db34beacf90a3fa3cee673f93d94b1704e2b128a8e66ea038b9c2073efb18855