batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l54549-l54683
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record_id: batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l54549-l54683
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
passage_locator:
label: Canto XLIV. The Night. / Canto L. The Broken Spell. / Canto LX. Kumbhakarna
Roused. / Canto LXXIV. The Medicinal Herbs.; lines 54549-54683
start: '54549'
end: '54683'
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: After nightfall, Hanuman and Vibhishan search a battlefield filled with
wounded and slain allies. The wounded Jambavan asks whether Hanuman lives, calls
him the army’s hope, and sends him to a radiant Himalayan mountain to fetch four
healing herbs. Hanuman flies there, cannot find the herbs when they hide from
him, uproots the mountain peak, carries it back, and the scent of the herbs restores
Rama’s sons and the Vanar host.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: At night, Hanuman and Vibhishan carry blazing brands and move through the
battlefield among the dying and the dead.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The battlefield is covered with severed limbs, blood, groans, and many fallen
Vanars and named chiefs.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: Vibhishan and Hanuman seek Jambavan and find him pierced with many shafts
and nearly unable to see or speak.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Jambavan asks whether Hanuman, the Wind-God’s son, has survived.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: Jambavan says that if Hanuman lives, the others, though dead, are alive; if
Hanuman is dead, the living are as dead.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Jambavan instructs Hanuman to save the Vanars and heal the wounds of the sons
of Raghu.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: Jambavan directs Hanuman to fly over the sea to Himalaya, where a mountain
between Kailasa and Rishabh bears four radiant herbs.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: The four herbs are described as drawing out shafts, restoring breath to the
slain, healing wounds, and restoring color to cheeks.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: Hanuman flies through the air over the sea toward Himalaya and sees peaks,
cascades, retreats, and divine abodes.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: When Hanuman tries to seize the herbs, they hide from his sight.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:11
text: Hanuman threatens the mountain, bends his arms, and tears away its peak together
with living creatures and golden ore.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:12
text: Hanuman carries the mountain burden back through the air to the Vanars.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:13
text: The scent of the herbs gives new vigor to the host; Rama’s sons live again,
and the dead and dying Vanars rise healed from the battlefield.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Hanuman
description: The Wind-God’s son who searches the battlefield, is named as the army’s
hope, flies to Himalaya, uproots the mountain peak, and returns with the healing
herbs.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Vibhishan
description: A sage or chief who searches the battlefield with Hanuman and speaks
to the wounded Jambavan.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Jambavan
description: The aged monarch of the bears, wounded by many shafts, who identifies
Hanuman as the source of hope and gives the mission to fetch healing herbs.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Vanar and bear host
description: The allied host lying dead, wounded, frightened, or dying on the battlefield,
later restored by the scent of the herbs.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:8
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Sons of Raghu
description: The noble sons of Raghu whose wounds are to be healed and who live
again after Hanuman returns with the herbs.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:8
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: The Himalayan herb-bearing mountain
description: A mountain between Kailasa and Rishabh with radiant medicinal herbs
on its crest; Hanuman addresses it and tears away its peak.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:7
roles:
- id: role:1
label: heroic rescuer and herb-bringer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Hanuman alone is said to be able to help the lost host; he flies to the mountain,
brings the herbs, and the army is restored.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: role:2
label: battlefield search companion
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Vibhishan searches with Hanuman and calls to Jambavan to learn whether he
lives.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:3
label: wounded wise guide
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Jambavan, though badly wounded, recognizes Hanuman’s importance and gives
detailed directions and instructions for obtaining the herbs.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:4
label: afflicted recipients of healing
assigned_to:
- fig:4
- fig:5
basis: The Vanar and bear forces and the sons of Raghu are wounded, dead, or dying,
and are restored after the herbs arrive.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:8
- id: role:5
label: source of healing plants
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The mountain bears four radiant herbs with powers to remove shafts, restore
life, heal wounds, and renew color.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: night battlefield torches
literal_form: blazing brands carried in falling night over the battlefield
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: sea crossing
literal_form: waters of the sea crossed by Hanuman in flight
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: sym:3
label: Himalayan healing mountain
literal_form: mountain between Kailasa and Rishabh with a radiant herb-bearing crest
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs:
- mountain
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: sym:4
label: four medicinal herbs
literal_form: four radiant plants with powers to draw shafts, restore breath, heal
wounds, and renew color
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:8
- id: sym:5
label: serpents on uprooted peak
literal_form: snakes carried away with the torn mountain head
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs:
- serpent
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Night search among the slain
summary: Hanuman and Vibhishan carry torches through a night battlefield filled
with dead and wounded allies and search for Jambavan.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Jambavan’s command
summary: The wounded Jambavan asks whether Hanuman lives, declares him the army’s
hope, and instructs him to fetch four herbs from a Himalayan mountain to heal
the host and the sons of Raghu.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:3
label: Flight to Himalaya
summary: Hanuman flies across the sea toward Himalaya and reaches the sacred peaks
and the herb-bearing hill.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:4
label: Hidden herbs and uprooted peak
summary: When the herbs hide from Hanuman, he threatens the mountain and tears away
its peak with its living creatures and ore.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:5
label: Return and restoration
summary: Hanuman returns with the mountain burden; the scent of the herbs revives
and heals the sons of Raghu and the Vanar host.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: life-restoring herb or medicine
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: The herbs are explicitly said to restore breath to the slain, and their scent
causes Rama’s sons to live again and the dead and dying Vanars to rise healed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The passage frames the restoration through medicinal herbs rather than
a full afterlife return narrative.
- id: motif:2
label: heroic quest to a remote sacred mountain for healing substance
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: Jambavan sends Hanuman over the sea to a Himalayan mountain to obtain rare
radiant herbs needed to save the army.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The quest is urgent and martial rather than initiatory in this excerpt.
- id: motif:3
label: sacred mountain as source of power
taxonomy_refs:
- cosmic_mountain
basis: The herb-bearing mountain is located among Himalayan sacred peaks and near
divine abodes, and it contains radiant plants of sovereign healing power.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage presents a sacred, powerful mountain, but does not explicitly
identify it as a world-axis or cosmic center.
- id: motif:4
label: superhuman flight and ascent to a mountain realm
taxonomy_refs:
- ascent
basis: Hanuman springs into the air, crosses the sea, and reaches Himalayan heights
to obtain the remedy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The movement is horizontal and upward toward mountains; the passage does
not dwell on ascent as a spiritual transformation.
- id: motif:5
label: uprooted mountain or displaced peak
taxonomy_refs:
- cosmic_mountain
basis: Unable to identify the hidden herbs, Hanuman tears away the mountain’s peak
and carries it back to the battlefield.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy reference is approximate; the motif concerns a mountain as
a transported object rather than a fully described cosmic mountain.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: 54549-54575
quote_or_summary: Night conceals the battlefield as Hanuman and Vibhishan carry
blazing brands among the dying and dead; the scene includes severed limbs, blood,
fallen chiefs, and many slain Vanars.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: 54576-54591
quote_or_summary: They seek Jambavan, find him pierced with countless shafts and
weakened, and Vibhishan asks him to speak if he is alive; Jambavan faintly replies
and asks whether Hanuman survived.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: 54592-54615
quote_or_summary: 'Jambavan says Hanuman is the one on whom hope depends: if Hanuman
lives, the others are alive though dead; if he is dead, the living are as dead.
Hanuman approaches, and Jambavan tells him to save the Vanars and heal the sons
of Raghu.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: 54616-54629
quote_or_summary: Jambavan tells Hanuman to fly over the sea to Himalaya, where
Kailasa and Rishabh stand, and to find between them a radiant mountain clothed
with rare herbs.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: 54630-54638
quote_or_summary: Four plants on the mountain crest are described as having powers
to draw out shafts, restore the breath of life to the slain, heal wounds, and
restore the cheeks’ former hue.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: 54639-54659
quote_or_summary: Hanuman flies through the air, passes the sea, sees mountains,
waters, lands, the snowy Himalaya, cascades, sages’ retreats, and divine seats
or abodes, then reaches the hill where the herbs shine.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: 54660-54673
quote_or_summary: Hanuman searches for the herbs, but they hide from him; he angrily
threatens the mountain and tears away its huge head with its life, snakes, elephants,
and golden ore.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: 54674-54683
quote_or_summary: Hanuman carries the mountain burden back through the air; the
delightful scent of the herbs gives the host new vigor, frees them from darts,
wounds, and pain, makes the sons of Raghu live again, and raises healed Vanars
from the battlefield.
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: uncertain
notes: Literal extraction is well supported by the passage. Motif taxonomy assignments
are conservative and limited to the supplied taxonomy; no cross-text comparison
claims are made.
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; long public-domain verse was summarized rather than quoted.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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