batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l45623-l45668
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record_id: batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l45623-l45668
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
passage_locator:
label: Canto VI. The Court. / Canto VIII. The Enchanted Car. / Canto XI. The Banquet
Hall. / Canto XII. The Search Renewed.; lines 45623-45668
start: '45623'
end: '45668'
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 Vánar chief resumes searching Rávaṇ's palace for Sítá, does not find
her, fears she may have been killed or died of terror, worries about reporting
failure to the Vánar band, then resolves to continue searching every unvisited
place. He searches chambers, halls, corridors, arbours, lodges, cells, and picture-rooms,
passing sleeping women, but Sítá remains unfound.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The Vánar chief begins scanning chambers, bowers, and halls for the woman
he seeks.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: He does not find the woman he seeks.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- id: obs:3
text: He thinks the Maithil queen may have been slain after denying the fiend’s
entreaty.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: He also imagines that she may have died from terror on seeing the palace filled
with female monsters who serve the robber fiend.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: He worries about returning in shame to the Vánar band on the ocean strand
and about facing Angad and Jámbaván.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: He resolves to subdue his sorrow and search the palace thoroughly, including
unvisited places.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: He passes through chambers, halls, corridors, arbours, lodges, cells, picture-rooms,
and retreats where women are sleeping.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Vánar chief
description: The searching figure who explores Rávaṇ's palace and reflects on failure
and renewed effort.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Sítá / Maithil queen / Ráma’s spouse
description: The woman sought by the Vánar chief; she is not found in the searched
palace spaces.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:6
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Rávaṇ
description: Owner of the palace and dames seen by the searcher; called the robber
fiend in the searcher’s thought.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: female monsters
description: Female beings of evil appearance imagined as attending the robber fiend
in the palace.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Vánar band
description: The group left by the searcher on the ocean strand, to whom he expects
he may have to report failure.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Angad
description: A named member of the group whose reaction the searcher fears facing.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Jámbaván
description: A named member of the group whose reply the searcher imagines after
a failed report.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
roles:
- id: role:1
label: searcher
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: He repeatedly explores palace spaces in search of Sítá.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:2
label: sought woman
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: She is the woman sought by the Vánar chief and remains unfound.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- id: role:3
label: robber fiend and palace lord
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The passage refers to the robber fiend and to Rávaṇ's women and palace context.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:4
label: attendants of the robber fiend
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: They are described as female monsters who wait upon the robber fiend.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:5
label: awaiting companions
assigned_to:
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
basis: The searcher imagines reporting defeat and shame to the Vánar band, Angad,
and Jámbaván.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
symbols: []
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Failed search and fearful reflection
summary: The Vánar chief searches palace spaces without finding the Maithil queen
and considers that she may have been killed or died of terror.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:2
label: Anxious anticipation of reporting failure
summary: The searcher imagines returning to the Vánar band and named companions
with news of defeat and shame.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Renewed exploration of the palace
summary: The searcher resolves to continue and moves through many palace locations
and retreats where women sleep, but Sítá is still not found.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: search for a stolen beloved
taxonomy_refs:
- stolen_beloved
basis: The passage presents Ráma’s spouse, Sítá, as the object of a search inside
Rávaṇ’s palace, while Rávaṇ is called a robber fiend.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The passage segment focuses on the search and fear of failure; the abduction
itself is not narrated within this excerpt.
- id: motif:2
label: renewed quest after despair
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: After failing to find Sítá and fearing disgrace, the searcher resolves that
dauntless hearts may still win success and resumes searching unvisited places.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: This is a passage-level action pattern rather than a supplied taxonomy
motif family.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 45623-45627
quote_or_summary: "“Again the Vánar chief began / Each chamber, bower, and hall
to scan. / In vain: he found not her he sought”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 45628-45632
quote_or_summary: "“Ah me the Maithil queen is slain... The fiend’s entreaty has
denied, / And by his cruel hand has died.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 45633-45638
quote_or_summary: The searcher wonders whether she died of terror when she saw the
palace filled with female monsters who attend the robber fiend.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 45639-45652
quote_or_summary: The searcher says his search has been fruitless, fears returning
in shame, and wonders how to face the Vánar band, Angad, and Jámbaván.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 45653-45660
quote_or_summary: "“Yet dauntless hearts will never fail / To win success... And
search the palace through and through”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 45661-45668
quote_or_summary: He again explores chambers, halls, corridors, arbours, lodges,
cells, picture-rooms, and retreats where women sleep, but Sítá is nowhere found.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Literal extraction is straightforward from the passage. Motif assignment
is limited to passage-level evidence; no explicit cross-cultural comparison is
made in the text.
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 make or support a specific comparison beyond the local motif candidate assignment.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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