batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l864-l991
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record_id: batch.motif.hindu-ramayana-griffith-gutenberg-l864-l991
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
passage_locator:
label: CONTENTS / INVOCATION.(1) / BOOK I.(6) / OM.(8); lines 864-991
start: '864'
end: '991'
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: A contents-style narrative summary recounts Ráma leaving Chitrakúṭa for
Daṇḍaká forest, receiving divine weapons, protecting hermits, defeating fiends,
losing Sítá to Rávaṇ’s abduction, forming alliances with Hanumán and Sugríva,
killing Báli and installing Sugríva as king, and sending Hanumán to Lanká, where
he finds Sítá, exchanges tokens, burns the town, and returns with news.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
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text: Ráma leaves Chitrakúṭa and travels to Daṇḍaká’s forest, where he kills Virádha
and becomes acquainted with Agastya.
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evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Agastya counsels Ráma, who gains Indra’s sword, bow, and two inexhaustible
quivers.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: Hermits ask Ráma to protect them from fiends; Ráma kills multiple fiends,
including Dúshaṇ and a triple-headed monster, and cuts Śúrpaṇakhá’s face.
category: action
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- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Rávaṇ enlists Márícha for a vengeful plot despite Márícha’s warning that Rávaṇ
cannot match Ráma’s strength.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: Márícha’s magic separates the princely youths, and Rávaṇ kills the vulture
and carries away Ráma’s wife, Sítá.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Ráma finds Jaṭáyu slain, cannot find Sítá in the cottage, grieves, places
the bird on a funeral pile, and continues the search.
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evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: Ráma kills Kabandha and burns the body; Kabandha then emerges from the funeral
flame in a lovely form and directs Ráma toward a holy hermitess.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: At Pampá, Ráma gains Hanumán’s friendship and, through him, forms an alliance
with Sugríva before the sacred flame.
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- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: Ráma demonstrates strength by moving a huge corpse, shooting through seven
palms, cleaving a hill, and hurling a dart down to hell.
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evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: Ráma kills King Báli with one arrow and appoints Sugríva to rule in Báli’s
place; Sugríva sends envoys in all directions to seek Sítá.
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evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:11
text: Hanumán leaps across the sea to Lanká, finds Sítá beneath Aśoka boughs, gives
her Ráma’s ring, and receives a pledge from her hand.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:12
text: Hanumán destroys part of Lanká, kills several opponents, allows himself to
be captured, endures insults, burns the town, speaks again with Sítá, and returns
to Ráma with news.
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- ev:9
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name_or_label: Ráma
description: Heroic son of Raghu who travels through forests, defends hermits, seeks
Sítá, allies with Sugríva, kills Báli, and receives Hanumán’s report.
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- role:1
- role:2
- role:6
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- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:9
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name_or_label: Sítá
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- role:3
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- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Rávaṇ
description: Feared king who plots with Márícha, comes to Ráma’s hermitage, and
carries Sítá away.
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- role:4
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- ev:3
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Márícha
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separate the princely youths.
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- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Agastya
description: Counsellor and friend of Ráma, associated with Ráma receiving Indra’s
weapons and inexhaustible quivers.
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- role:7
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- ev:1
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name_or_label: Hermits
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- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Śúrpaṇakhá
description: A giantess who approaches Ráma with desire and has her face cut by
Ráma’s weapon.
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- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Jaṭáyu
description: Vulture found slain on the ground after Rávaṇ carries away Sítá; Ráma
places him on a funeral pile.
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- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Kabandha
description: Hideous giant slain and burned by Ráma, then emerging from the funeral
flame in a lovely form to give guidance.
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- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Hanumán
description: Wind-God’s son who befriends Ráma, advises contact with Sugríva, leaps
to Lanká, finds Sítá, gives her a ring, burns the town, and returns with news.
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- role:5
- role:12
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- ev:5
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Sugríva
description: Vánar chief who swears alliance with Ráma, tells of Báli’s wrongs,
and becomes king after Báli is slain.
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- role:13
- role:14
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- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
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name_or_label: Báli
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Sugríva and is killed by Ráma.
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- role:15
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- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: fig:13
name_or_label: Sampáti
description: Counsellor whose guidance leads Hanumán toward Lanká.
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- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:14
name_or_label: Brahmá
description: Divine figure whose earlier decree is honored by Hanumán when he endures
insults.
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- role:16
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- ev:9
- id: fig:15
name_or_label: Indra
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- role:16
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- ev:1
- ev:2
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- fig:1
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- ev:1
- id: role:2
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- fig:1
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die by his might.
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- ev:2
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- fig:2
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- ev:3
- ev:8
- id: role:4
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- fig:3
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Sítá away.
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- ev:3
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- fig:4
- fig:10
- fig:13
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counsel leads Hanumán toward Lanká.
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- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:8
- id: role:6
label: bereaved seeker
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- fig:1
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- ev:4
- id: role:7
label: weapon-associated sage friend
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- fig:5
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- ev:1
- id: role:8
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- fig:6
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- ev:2
- id: role:9
label: desiring giantess
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- fig:7
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and is disfigured.
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- ev:2
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label: slain vulture
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- fig:8
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- ev:3
- ev:4
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- fig:9
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- ev:5
- id: role:12
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- fig:10
basis: Hanumán leaps across the sea to Lanká, finds Sítá, exchanges tokens, and
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- ev:8
- ev:9
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- fig:11
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- ev:5
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- fig:11
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- ev:7
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label: rival king slain in combat context
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- fig:12
basis: Báli comes out to fight Sugríva and is struck down by Ráma’s arrow.
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- ev:7
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label: divine authority
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- fig:14
- fig:15
basis: Brahmá’s decree is cited, and Indra is named as heavenly lord associated
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- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:9
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label: divine weapons
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- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:15
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- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: forest retreat and primeval wood
literal_form: Chitrakúṭa’s hill, Daṇḍaká’s primeval wood, greenwood shade, leafy
cottage
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- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:6
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- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
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- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:11
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- ev:5
- ev:9
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- fig:11
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- fig:2
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
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- fig:11
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- tree
- mountain
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- ev:6
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label: Kishkindhá cave
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- fig:12
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- ev:7
- id: sym:8
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literal_form: Two-hundred-league leap across the deep to Lanká
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- ev:8
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label: Aśoka boughs
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- fig:2
- fig:10
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- tree
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- ev:8
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label: Ráma enters Daṇḍaká and receives weapons
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Agastya, and gains Indra’s weapons and inexhaustible quivers.
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- fig:5
- fig:15
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- sym:2
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- ev:1
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label: Protection of hermits and defeat of fiends
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- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:7
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- sym:2
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- ev:2
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label: Rávaṇ’s plot and Sítá’s abduction
summary: Rávaṇ seeks Márícha’s aid, ignores his warning, reaches the hermitage,
uses Márícha’s magic to separate the youths, kills the vulture, and carries Sítá
away.
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- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:8
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- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Ráma’s grief and Jaṭáyu’s funeral
summary: Ráma discovers Jaṭáyu dead and Sítá missing, grieves, lays the bird on
a funeral pile, and continues the search.
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- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Kabandha’s transformation and guidance
summary: Ráma kills and burns Kabandha; Kabandha emerges in a lovely form and directs
Ráma to a holy hermitess, leading him toward Pampá.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Alliance with Sugríva
summary: At Pampá, Ráma gains Hanumán’s friendship, tells his grief to Sugríva,
and forms an alliance with him before the sacred flame.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:10
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:7
label: Proof of strength and death of Báli
summary: Ráma proves his might to Sugríva, travels with him to Kishkindhá’s cave,
and kills Báli with one arrow, after which Sugríva is made king and envoys are
sent to search for Sítá.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:11
- fig:12
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:8
label: Hanumán in Lanká
summary: Guided by Sampáti’s counsel, Hanumán leaps across the sea to Lanká, finds
Sítá under Aśoka boughs, gives her Ráma’s ring, receives her pledge, fights in
the city, burns it, and returns to Ráma with news.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:10
- fig:13
- fig:14
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:8
- sym:9
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
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- id: motif:1
label: departure from a settled retreat into a dangerous forest
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- departure
basis: Ráma leaves Chitrakúṭa’s calm retreat and travels onward to Daṇḍaká’s primeval
wood.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage is a summary and does not frame the movement as a formal quest
departure.
- id: motif:2
label: hero as protector against destructive beings
taxonomy_refs:
- culture_hero
basis: Hermits ask Ráma to destroy fiends harming them, and he kills numerous foes.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The available taxonomy term is broad; the passage presents martial protection
rather than explicit culture-founding.
- id: motif:3
label: abduction of the hero’s beloved
taxonomy_refs:
- stolen_beloved
basis: Rávaṇ carries away Sítá, Ráma’s wife, after the youths are separated by magic.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: None beyond the passage’s summary form.
- id: motif:4
label: death, burning, and transformed emergence
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
basis: Kabandha is killed and burned, then emerges from the funeral flame in a lovely
form and gives guidance.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage does not explicitly describe resurrection theology; it reports
a transformation after death and burning.
- id: motif:5
label: alliance sworn before sacred fire
taxonomy_refs:
- covenant
- sacred_exchange
basis: Ráma and Sugríva form an alliance before the sacred flame.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives only the compressed contents-summary form of the oath.
- id: motif:6
label: hero’s proof of power before alliance action
taxonomy_refs:
- initiation
basis: Ráma demonstrates his strength to Sugríva by moving a giant corpse, piercing
seven palms, cleaving a hill, and hurling a dart downward.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: This is classified as initiation only in the loose sense of proving capacity
before joint action.
- id: motif:7
label: slaying a rival king and installing an allied ruler
taxonomy_refs:
- royal_legitimacy
basis: Ráma kills Báli and tells Sugríva to reign in his place.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The passage does not give the full political or ethical context.
- id: motif:8
label: marvelous leap across the sea by a messenger
taxonomy_refs:
- ascent
basis: Hanumán leaps two hundred leagues across the deep to Lanká to find Sítá and
return news.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: low
cautions: The taxonomy term 'ascent' is only approximate; the literal action is
a horizontal sea crossing.
- id: motif:9
label: recognition tokens between separated spouses
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: Hanumán gives Sítá Ráma’s ring as a token and receives a pledge from her
hand.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: The exchange is mediated by Hanumán rather than occurring directly between
spouses.
- id: motif:10
label: destructive fire used by heroic messenger
taxonomy_refs:
- world_destroying_fire
basis: Hanumán burns Lanká’s town with hostile flame before returning to Ráma.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: low
cautions: The fire destroys a town in the passage, not the world; taxonomy mapping
is approximate.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 864-877
quote_or_summary: Ráma leaves Chitrakúṭa for Daṇḍaká, kills Virádha, befriends Agastya,
and obtains Indra’s sword, bow, and inexhaustible quivers.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 878-895
quote_or_summary: Hermits seek Ráma’s aid against fiends; he is asked to act like
a guardian god, cuts Śúrpaṇakhá’s face, and kills Dúshaṇ, a triple-headed monster,
and many fiends.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 897-914
quote_or_summary: Rávaṇ plots with Márícha, ignores the warning against opposing
Ráma, uses Márícha’s magic to separate the youths, kills the vulture, and abducts
Ráma’s wife.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 915-924
quote_or_summary: Ráma finds Jaṭáyu slain, discovers Sítá missing from the cottage,
grieves, places the bird on a funeral pile, and continues searching.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 925-944
quote_or_summary: Ráma kills Kabandha and burns the body; Kabandha emerges from
the flame in a lovely form and gives guidance. Ráma reaches Pampá, gains Hanumán’s
friendship, and forms a sacred-flame alliance with Sugríva.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 945-965
quote_or_summary: Sugríva tells Ráma of Báli’s wrongs and strength; Ráma proves
his might by moving a giant corpse, piercing seven palms, cleaving a hill, and
hurling a dart down to hell.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 966-979
quote_or_summary: Ráma and Sugríva go to Kishkindhá’s cave; Báli comes out, fights
Sugríva, and is killed by Ráma’s arrow. Ráma tells Sugríva to reign, and envoys
are sent in all directions to seek Sítá.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 980-989
quote_or_summary: Following Sampáti’s counsel, Hanumán leaps two hundred leagues
across the sea to Lanká, finds Sítá beneath Aśoka boughs, gives her Ráma’s ring,
and receives a pledge from her hand.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/ramayana-griffith.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 990-991 and surrounding passage end
quote_or_summary: Hanumán destroys the garden gate, kills several opponents, yields
to capture, endures insults in honor of Brahmá’s decree, burns the town, speaks
again with Sítá, and returns to Ráma with tidings.
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: high
notes: The passage is a compressed contents summary rather than a full narrative
episode; major figures, symbols, and motifs are clear, but line subdivision and
some taxonomy mappings are approximate.
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 provided passage does not itself compare these events to external traditions or motif families beyond the supplied taxonomy mapping for candidate motifs.
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