Agni
Also known as: Fire / Lord of Fire / Lord of Flame · Family: Gods · Role: divine parent · First appears: Book I, Canto 16 · The Vánars
In Book I, Canto 16, Níla is born as Agni’s child, “bright as flame.” In Book IV, Canto 67, Agni is described as the eternal friend of Váyu.
In Book V, Canto 53, fire spares Hanumán from its heat. In Book VI, Canto 63, Kumbhakarṇa names Agni among those he would face in battle. In Canto 120, Agni raises Sítá unharmed from the pyre and declares her faithful and pure.
Relationship record
Life events
- Nila was born as Agni’s child.(Book I, Canto 16 · The Vánars)
- With: Níla
- “From Agni, Nila bright as flame, Who in his splendour, might, and worth, Surpassed the sire who gave him birth.”
- Agni restores Sítá unharmed from the pyre and declares her faithful and pure.(Book VI, Canto 120 · Sítá Restored)
- With: Sítá
- “And, raising in his gentle hold Alive unharmed the Maithil dame, The Lord of Fire embodied came.”
Book I, Canto 16 · The Vánars
- child: Níla “From Agni, Nila bright as flame, Who in his splendour, might, and worth, Surpassed the sire who gave him birth.”
Book IV, Canto 41 · The Army Of The South
- child: Níla (Agni is named as Níla’s father.) “He summoned Níla son of Fire,”
Book IV, Canto 67 · Hanumán’s Speech
- friends with Váyu “The Wind-God, Fire’s eternal friend, Whose blasts the mountain summits rend,”
Book V, Canto 53 · The Punishment
- protégé: Hanumán “The pitying fire its rage forbore: The Vánar felt the heat no more.”
Book VI, Canto 63 · Kumbhakarna’s Boast
- enemies with Kumbhakarṇa “If Indra with the Storm-Gods came Against me, and the Lord of Flame,”
Book VI, Canto 120 · Sítá Restored
- with Sítá (Agni restores Sítá alive and unharmed from the pyre.) “And, raising in his gentle hold Alive unharmed the Maithil dame, The Lord of Fire embodied came.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Rámáyan of Válmíki. Made with Rho MD.