batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l5006-l5160
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record_id: batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l5006-l5160
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
passage_locator:
label: Canto XXIX. The Celestial Arms. / Canto XXXI. The Perfect Hermitage. / Canto
XXXIII. The Sone. / Canto XXXIV. Brahmadatta.; lines 5006-5160
start: '5006'
end: '5160'
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 recounts the lineage of King Kuśa, the founding of cities by
his sons, and the landscape of Vasu’s former land. It then narrates how Kuśanábha’s
hundred daughters, born of the nymph Ghritáchí, reject the Wind-God’s proposal
because they defer marriage choice to their father. In anger, the Wind-God bends
their bodies. The daughters report the event to their father, who praises their
patience and virtue, consults ministers about their marriage, and the town becomes
known by the name Kanyákubja because of the bent maidens.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: King Kuśa is described as descended from Brahmá and as just, faithful to vows,
and true.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Kuśa’s queen, from the old monarchs of Vidarbha, bore four valiant sons.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: Kuśa instructed his sons that protection is a prince’s duty and told them
to begin noble work for virtue and its fruits.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:4
text: 'The four sons each went out to found or dwell in separate towns or citadels:
Kauśámbí, Mahodaya, Dharmáraṇya, and Girivraja.'
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:5
text: The place where the speakers stand is identified as Vasu’s former land, marked
by five mountain peaks and the Sumágadhí rill flowing from a hill through Magadh.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:6
text: Ghritáchí, a fair nymph married to Kuśanábha, bore one hundred beautiful daughters.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: The hundred daughters went to a garden in gay attire, where they danced, laughed,
sang, and played.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:8
text: The God of Wind saw the maidens and asked all of them to become his brides,
offering immortal life and unending youth.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:9
text: The maidens rejected the Wind-God’s proposal and said they would not choose
husbands for themselves against their father’s choice.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:10
text: The Wind-God became enraged and sent a blast upon each maiden, bending their
bodies.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:11
text: The bent maidens returned to their father’s palace, fell on the ground with
tears and shame, and were questioned by the king.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:12
text: The daughters reported that the Wind-God sought to disgrace them and struck
them after they told him to obtain their father’s consent.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:13
text: Kuśanábha praised his daughters for preserving their father’s honour and taught
that patience is highly virtuous.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:14
text: Kuśanábha summoned ministers to deliberate about the daughters’ marriage.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:15
text: The town is said to be known as Kanyákubja because the Wind-God bent the maidens’
forms.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Kuśa
description: A king of Brahmá’s seed, father of four valiant sons.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Queen from Vidarbha
description: Kuśa’s bride, from the line of Vidarbha’s monarchs, mother of four
sons.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Kuśámba
description: One of Kuśa’s sons; builder of Kauśámbí.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Kuśanábha
description: One of Kuśa’s sons; founder of Mahodaya; later father of the hundred
daughters.
role_refs:
- role:3
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:8
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Amúrtarajas
description: One of Kuśa’s sons; chose to dwell in Dharmáraṇya’s citadel.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Vasu
description: One of Kuśa’s sons; named his city Girivraja; the surrounding fertile
land is called his old domain.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Ghritáchí
description: A fair nymph married to Kuśanábha and mother of one hundred daughters.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Hundred daughters of Kuśanábha
description: Lovely maidens who reject the Wind-God’s proposal, are bent by his
blast, and report the event to their father.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: God of Wind
description: A deity who roves freely, proposes marriage to the hundred maidens,
offers immortal youth, and bends them in anger after they refuse.
role_refs:
- role:7
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Ministers of state
description: Counsellors summoned by Kuśanábha to debate the daughters’ marriage.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
roles:
- id: role:1
label: ancestral righteous king
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Kuśa is described as a just king of Brahmá’s seed who instructs his sons
in princely duty.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: royal mother
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The queen bears Kuśa’s four sons.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:3
label: city founder or territorial establisher
assigned_to:
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
basis: Each son goes forth to found or inhabit a named city or citadel.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:4
label: father and judging king
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Kuśanábha questions the injured daughters, praises their conduct, and arranges
deliberation about their marriage.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: role:5
label: nymph mother
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Ghritáchí is called a nymph and mother of Kuśanábha’s hundred daughters.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: obedient royal maidens
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The daughters refuse to choose husbands independently and defer to their
father’s decree.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: role:7
label: divine suitor
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The Wind-God asks all the maidens to become his brides and offers immortal
youth.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:8
label: divine punisher
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: After the refusal, he sends a blast that bends each maiden’s form.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:9
- id: role:9
label: royal counsellors
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: The ministers are summoned to debate the daughters’ marriage.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: five mountain peaks
literal_form: Five lofty mountain peaks around Vasu’s former land.
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: Sumágadhí rill
literal_form: A bright rill bursting from a parent hill and winding through Magadh.
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: Wind-God’s blast
literal_form: A blast sent by the Wind-God that bends the maidens’ bodies.
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:4
label: bent maiden forms
literal_form: The hundred daughters’ bodies bent double after the Wind-God’s stroke.
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:9
- id: sym:5
label: Kanyákubja place-name
literal_form: A royal town said to receive its name because the Wind-God bent the
damsels’ forms.
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Kuśa’s sons establish cities
summary: Kuśa instructs his four sons in princely duty; they depart and establish
or inhabit named cities and citadels.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Vasu’s former land described
summary: The passage identifies the fertile place as Vasu’s old domain, marked by
five mountain peaks, a flowing rill, and cultivated Magadh fields.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Hundred daughters in the garden
summary: Ghritáchí’s hundred daughters, described as beautiful, go to a garden and
engage in music, dance, laughter, and play.
figure_refs:
- fig:7
- fig:8
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Wind-God’s proposal
summary: The Wind-God sees the maidens and asks them all to become his brides, offering
freedom from mortality and unending youth.
figure_refs:
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: The daughters refuse independent marriage choice
summary: The maidens reject the proposal, stating that their father is their supreme
authority and that only those chosen by him shall be their husbands.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Wind-God bends the maidens
summary: The Wind-God becomes angry and sends a blast on each maiden, bending their
forms; they return in distress to their father’s palace.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:7
label: Daughters report the assault
summary: The daughters tell Kuśanábha that the Wind-God tried to disgrace them and
struck them after they asked him to seek their father’s consent.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:8
label: Kuśanábha praises patience and consults ministers
summary: Kuśanábha praises the daughters’ patience and preservation of family honour,
then summons ministers to discuss their marriage; the town’s name is explained
from the bending of the maidens.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:8
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: dynastic city founding by royal sons
taxonomy_refs:
- culture_hero
- royal_legitimacy
basis: Kuśa’s four sons each found or inhabit named settlements, linking cities
and lands to a royal lineage descended from Brahmá.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage is genealogical and territorial; the available taxonomy does
not include a dedicated city-foundation or place-origin category.
- id: motif:2
label: divine suitor offers immortality to mortal maidens
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: The Wind-God asks the hundred maidens to be his brides and offers immortal
life and unending youth.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The maidens reject the proposal, so the passage presents attempted divine
courtship rather than an accepted divine union.
- id: motif:3
label: filial obedience in marriage choice
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The maidens refuse to choose husbands independently and insist that their
father’s decree determines their marriages.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: No specific available taxonomy reference directly matches this social-ethical
motif.
- id: motif:4
label: divine punishment by bodily deformation
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: After the maidens refuse him, the Wind-God angrily sends a blast that bends
each body, and the later place-name is attributed to this event.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage calls the bending a punishment, but it arises from the deity’s
anger rather than a formal judicial act.
- id: motif:5
label: etiological place-name from mythic event
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The town’s fame-name Kanyákubja is explained as deriving from the bent forms
of the damsels after the Wind-God’s punishment.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: No available taxonomy reference specifically covers place-name etiology.
- id: motif:6
label: moral instruction on patience as supreme virtue
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Kuśanábha teaches that patience is priceless and equates it with alms, truth,
sacrifice, virtue, and fame.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: This is an explicit moral discourse within the passage; its classification
as a motif is interpretive.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 5006-5030
quote_or_summary: Kuśa, a king of Brahmá’s seed, has four sons by a Vidarbha queen,
counsels them that protection is a prince’s duty, and the sons establish or inhabit
Kauśámbí, Mahodaya, Dharmáraṇya, and Girivraja.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 5031-5044
quote_or_summary: The standing place is Vasu’s former fertile domain, with five
mountain peaks and the Sumágadhí rill flowing from a hill through Magadh’s plains
and cultivated fields.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 5045-5058
quote_or_summary: Ghritáchí, a fair nymph married to Kuśanábha, bears a hundred
lovely daughters; the maidens go to a garden in festive dress and dance, laugh,
sing, and play.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: lines 5059-5068
quote_or_summary: The Wind-God says, “I love you all, sweet girls,” asks each to
be his bride, and offers them “unending youth” and immortality.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; short excerpt.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 5069-5088
quote_or_summary: The hundred girls refuse the Wind-God’s suit, saying their father
Kuśanábha is their supreme authority and that those given by his decree will be
their husbands.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 5089-5102
quote_or_summary: The Wind-God becomes enraged, sends a blast on each maiden, bends
their forms, and the daughters return to their father’s palace in tears and shame;
the king asks what happened.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 5103-5124
quote_or_summary: The daughters tell their father that the Wind-God sought to disgrace
them; they told him to obtain their father’s consent, but he struck them despite
their gentle speech.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: quote
locator: lines 5125-5148
quote_or_summary: Kuśanábha praises his daughters’ deed and teaches, “Patience,
my girls, exceeds all price,” calling it alms, truth, sacrifice, virtue, and fame.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; short excerpt.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 5149-5160
quote_or_summary: Kuśanábha summons ministers to debate the daughters’ marriage;
because the Wind-God bent the damsels’ forms, the royal town becomes known as
Kanyákubja.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: The narrative actions, figures, and place-name etiology are explicit in the
passage. Motif taxonomy matches are partly approximate because the supplied taxonomy
lacks specific categories for place-name etiology, filial obedience, and bodily
deformation after rejected courtship.
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 text and metadata; no external comparisons added.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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