Kaikeyi

This is lane 14's five-of-six pattern in its worst form. Dasharatha has three queens. The corpus held Kausalya and Sumitra — the mothers of Rama and of Lakshmana, that is, the two whose sons are already in the registry — and not Kaikeyi, whose act is the reason there is a story. A corpus that adds people because other people it holds are related to them will always produce this shape, and it is worth naming as a mechanism rather than as a run of bad luck.

Domains

• queenship

Relations

• queen consort of: DasharathaNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Dasharatha record. The corpus already held two of his three queens, Kausalya and Sumitra, and not this one.Reference treatment: Dasaratha granted Kaikeyi two boons after she saved his life during a battle. (secondary)
• mother of: BharataNon-symmetric and recorded as a relation, because the corpus holds Bharata with `parentIds` naming Dasharatha alone. The same asymmetry appeared in lane 15 with Sohrab: the corpus records the father and not the mother, and this batch supplies the mother without mutating the record.Reference treatment: Manthara persuaded Kaikeyi that the throne belonged to her son Bharata, and Bharata was deeply upset with his mother and refused the throne. (secondary)
• exiled: RamaNon-symmetric. This single edge is the Ramayana: the corpus held the exiled and not the exiler.Reference treatment: Kaikeyi's second boon was that Rama should be sent on exile for fourteen years. (secondary)

Sources

• Kaikeyi is Dasharatha's queen and Bharata's mother, who calls in two boons to have Bharata crowned and Rama exiled for fourteen years.: Reference treatments of Kaikeyi, of Manthara and of the two boons. (secondary)