batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l7736-l7795
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record_id: batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l7736-l7795
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
passage_locator:
label: Canto LV. The Hermitage Burnt. / Canto LVII. Trisanku. / Canto LVIII. Trisanku
Cursed. / Canto LIX. The Sons Of Vasishtha.; lines 7736-7795
start: '7736'
end: '7795'
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: Triśanku falls from the sky and calls to Viśvámitra for rescue. Viśvámitra
halts him, creates new stars and threatens to remake the divine order. The gods
object that Triśanku is cursed and unpurified, but Viśvámitra insists on fulfilling
his vow to send the king bodily to heaven. The gods agree that Viśvámitra’s stars
will remain and that Triśanku will shine head downward among them.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Triśanku falls from the sky after being addressed by the Lord of Gods and
cries to the hermit to save him.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Viśvámitra hears Triśanku’s cry, sees him falling, and commands him to stay.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: By penance-power and holy lore, Viśvámitra fixes seven other saints on high
to shine in the southern sky.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Viśvámitra prepares new stars in the southern firmament.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: In anger, Viśvámitra threatens to create another Indra or leave the world
without Indra, and begins to form new gods.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Titans, gods, and saints approach Viśvámitra in fear and try to soothe him
with words.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The gods state that the king does not deserve a heavenly home while unpurified
from curse and stain.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: Viśvámitra says he swore to bear Triśanku to the skies clothed in his body
and cannot cancel his promise.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: Viśvámitra asks that the embodied king ascend to eternal life in heaven and
that his new-made stars remain secure as long as earth and heaven endure.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:10
text: The gods agree that Viśvámitra’s stars will remain beyond the sun’s daily
path and that Triśanku will shine head downward among them.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:11
text: Viśvámitra gives assent, and the gods and sages depart homeward.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Triśanku
description: A king who falls from the sky, seeks Viśvámitra’s aid, and is later
placed head downward among new stars.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Viśvámitra / son of Kuśik
description: A mighty saint who halts Triśanku’s fall, creates new stars, threatens
to remake divine rulership, and insists on fulfilling his vow.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Gods / Immortals
description: Divine beings who object that Triśanku is cursed and later grant Viśvámitra’s
request in modified form.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Titans, gods, and saints
description: A collective group that approaches Viśvámitra in terror and attempts
to soothe him.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Seven other saints
description: Saints whom Viśvámitra fixes on high to shine as lights in the southern
sky.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
roles:
- id: role:1
label: Falling embodied king seeking rescue and heavenly placement
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Triśanku falls from the sky, calls for rescue, and is later to ascend clothed
in his body and shine among stars.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:2
label: Ascetic rescuer and cosmic maker
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Viśvámitra stops the fall, uses penance-power to make stars, and begins forming
new gods.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: Petitioning divine assembly
assigned_to:
- fig:3
- fig:4
basis: The cosmic beings approach in fear, argue about Triśanku’s curse, and the
gods accept Viśvámitra’s request.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: role:4
label: Newly fixed celestial saints
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The seven saints are fixed on high to star the southern sky.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: Fall from the sky
literal_form: Triśanku’s swift descent from the sky while crying for rescue
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: New stars in the southern sky
literal_form: Newly prepared stars and seven saints fixed on high in the southern
firmament
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: Embodied ascent to heaven
literal_form: Triśanku to be borne to the skies and to ascend clothed in his body
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: Head-downward celestial placement
literal_form: Triśanku hung head downward among the new stars, shining as one divine
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: Threatened replacement of Indra
literal_form: Viśvámitra’s threat to create another Indra or leave the world without
Indra
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Triśanku’s fall and cry for aid
summary: Triśanku descends from the sky and calls on the hermit to save him; Viśvámitra
sees and commands him to stay.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Viśvámitra’s celestial creation
summary: Viśvámitra uses ascetic power and holy knowledge to create or fix new lights
in the southern sky.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Threat to remake divine order
summary: In anger, Viśvámitra threatens to create another Indra, to leave the world
Indraless, and begins forming new gods.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Divine petition over Triśanku’s curse
summary: Gods and other cosmic beings approach Viśvámitra, saying that the cursed
king does not deserve heaven while unpurified.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Compromise placement among the stars
summary: Viśvámitra insists on his vow to send Triśanku bodily to heaven; the gods
agree that the new stars will remain and Triśanku will shine head downward among
them.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:6
label: Departure after assent
summary: Viśvámitra assents to the arrangement, and the gods and sages return home.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Embodied ascent to heaven
taxonomy_refs:
- ascent
basis: Viśvámitra vows to bear Triśanku bodily to the skies and asks that the embodied
king ascend to endless heavenly life.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage also presents a compromised placement rather than ordinary
admission into heaven.
- id: motif:2
label: Catasterism or placement among stars
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Viśvámitra creates new stars, and the gods decree that Triśanku will shine
head downward among them with the stars attending him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: No supplied taxonomy reference directly names catasterism or stellar transformation.
- id: motif:3
label: Ascetic power challenging divine order
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Viśvámitra’s anger leads him to threaten creation of another Indra, an Indraless
world, and new gods, causing cosmic beings to intervene.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The passage does not describe a completed overthrow of divine order.
- id: motif:4
label: Heavenly admission blocked by curse or impurity
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The gods state that Triśanku does not deserve a heavenly home because his
master’s curses cling to him and he is unpurified from curse and stain.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The judgment is negotiated and partially overridden by Viśvámitra’s vow.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: 'This passage fits the ascent motif family at the level of narrative function:
a king is to be carried bodily to the skies and located in heaven.'
claim_level: same_motif
target: ascent
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
counter_evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: high
limitations: The passage’s ascent is exceptional and contested; Triśanku is finally
hung head downward among stars rather than simply admitted to a standard heavenly
home.
- id: claim:2
claim: The divine refusal based on curse and stain can be cautiously compared to
a divine-judgment pattern in which heavenly access depends on ritual or moral
status.
claim_level: same_function
target: divine_judgment
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
counter_evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
confidence: medium
limitations: The final outcome is a negotiated compromise produced by Viśvámitra’s
ascetic power, not a straightforward divine verdict.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 7736-7746
quote_or_summary: Triśanku falls from the sky, cries for the hermit to save him,
and Viśvámitra commands him to stay.
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 7747-7756
quote_or_summary: By penance-power and holy lore, Viśvámitra fixes seven saints
high in the southern sky and prepares new stars there.
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 7757-7762
quote_or_summary: Viśvámitra threatens to create another Indra or leave the world
without Indra, and begins forming new gods.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 7763-7772
quote_or_summary: Titans, gods, and saints approach in terror; the gods say the
king is cursed and unpurified and does not deserve heaven.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg text; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 7773-7788
quote_or_summary: Viśvámitra says he vowed to bear Triśanku to the skies clothed
in his body and asks that the king ascend and the new stars remain secure forever.
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 7789-7795
quote_or_summary: The gods grant that Viśvámitra’s stars will stay beyond the sun’s
daily path and that Triśanku will shine head downward among them, attended by
their rays.
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: final stanza in supplied passage
quote_or_summary: The mighty saint gives assent, and the gods and sages return homeward.
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: medium
notes: Literal extraction is strong for the supplied passage. Motif and comparison
labels are limited to available taxonomy references and should be reviewed by
a human specialist.
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 textual context was added.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg__l7736-l7795
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