Sampáti
Also known as: King Sampáti / Sampati · Family: Vánars · Role: son of Aruṇ · First appears: Book III, Canto 14 · Jatáyus
In Book III, Canto 14, Aruṇ is named as the father of Sampáti and Jaṭáyus. In Book IV, Sampáti recounts how he shielded Jaṭáyus from the sun, losing his pinions to the heat and falling on Vindhya’s hill. Later, Supárśva told him that he had seen a giant carrying Sítá southward; through the grace of Niśakar, Sampáti’s pinions were restored.
In Book V, Hanumán says Sampáti’s counsel bade him leap across the deep. In Book VI, Canto 43, Sampáti crushed Prajangha with a tree.
Relationship record
Life events
- Aruṇ fathered Sampati and Jaṭáyus.(Book III, Canto 14 · Jatáyus)
- Sampáti’s feathers burn away as he shields his brother from the sun’s heat, and he falls on Vindhya’s hill.(Book IV, Canto 58 · Tidings Of Sítá · 📍 Vindhya’s hill)
- “Till, all my feathers burnt away, On Vindhya’s hill I fell and lay.”
- Supárśva revealed to Sampáti that he had seen a giant carrying Sítá southward.(Book IV, Canto 59 · Sampáti’s Story)
- With: Supárśva
- “Before mine eyes a giant flew Whose monstrous form was dark of hue And struggling in his grasp was borne A lady radiant as the morn. Swift to the south his course he bent, And cleft the yielding element.”
- Sampáti shielded Jaṭáyus from the sun but lost his pinions to the heat.(Book IV, Canto 61 · Sampáti’s Story)
- With: Jaṭáyus
- “With sheltering wings I intervened And from the sun his body screened, But lost, for heedless folly doomed, My pinions which the heat consumed.”
- Sampáti’s pinions were restored through the hermit’s grace.(Book IV, Canto 63 · Sampáti’s Story)
- With: Niśakar
- “Joy, joy! the pinions, which the Lord Of Day consumed, are now restored Through the dear grace & boundless might Of that illustrious anchorite.”
- Sampáti crushed Prajangha with a tree.(Book VI, Canto 43 · The Single Combats)
- With: Prajangha
- “But, heedless of his gashes he Crushed down the giant with a tree.”
Book III, Canto 14 · Jatáyus
- parent: Aruṇ “And sons of Aruṇ red as morn Sampati first, then I was born,”
Book IV, Canto 56 · Sampáti
- siblings with Jaṭáyus “Jaṭáyus’ brother, famed of old,”
Book IV, Canto 58 · Tidings Of Sítá
- siblings with Jaṭáyus “Thus King Sampáti spoke and sighed: And royal Angad thus replied: “If, brother of Jatáyus, thou”
- elder kin: Vinatá “We too, O chiefs, of vulture race, Our line from Vinatá may trace,”
Book IV, Canto 59 · Sampáti’s Story
- child: Supárśva “Yet, ere the breath had left my frame, My son, my dear Supárśva, came.”
Book IV, Canto 60 · Sampáti’s Story
- siblings with Jaṭáyus “Two vulture brothers once I knew:”
- friends with Niśakar “In human shape they loved to greet Their hermit friend, and clasp his feet.”
Book IV, Canto 61 · Sampáti’s Story
- siblings with Jaṭáyus “My hapless brother once and I Our strength of flight resolved to try.”
- with Jaṭáyus (Sampáti shielded Jaṭáyus from the sun.) “At length, o’erpowered, Jaṭáyus fell Without a word to say farewell, And when to earth I saw him hie I followed headlong from the sky. With sheltering wings I intervened And from the sun his body screened,”
Book IV, Canto 63 · Sampáti’s Story
- mentor: Niśakar (Niśakar counseled Sampáti to live.) “Those hopeful words the hermit spake, That bid me live for Ráma’s sake,”
Book V, Canto 31 · Hanumán’s Speech
- with Hanumán (Sampáti advised Hanumán to leap across the sea.) “Sampáti’s counsel bade me leap A hundred leagues across the deep.”
- with Hanumán (Sampáti’s counsel directed Hanumán to leap across the sea.) “Sampáti’s counsel bade me leap A hundred leagues across the deep.”
Book VI, Canto 43 · The Single Combats
- enemies with Prajangha “Sampáti, strongest of his race, Stood with Prajangha face to face.”
Book VI, Canto 50 · The Broken Spell
- lord: Susheṇ “Those herbs that on the mountain spring Let Panas and Sampáti bring,”
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Extracted from the original text of The Rámáyan of Válmíki. Made with Rho MD.