Dundubhi
Family: none · Role: demon · First appears: Book IV, Canto 9 · Sugríva’s Story
In Book IV, Canto 9, Máyáví is identified as Dundubhi’s child. In Canto 11, Dundubhi challenges Ocean to battle, but Ocean directs him to Himálaya; there, Himálaya sends him to fight Báli. Dundubhi challenges Báli at Kishkindhá, and Báli kills him, dashing him to the ground.
Afterward, Ráma touches Dundubhi’s body with his foot and sends it twenty leagues away.
Relationship record
Life events
- Dundubhi challenges Ocean to battle, but Ocean directs him to Himálaya.(Book IV, Canto 11 · Dundubhi)
- With: Ocean
- “He reached the king of rolling waves Whose gems are piled in sunless caves, And threw his challenge to the sea; ‘Come forth, O King, and fight with me.’”
- Dundubhi challenges Himálaya, who sends him to fight Báli.(Book IV, Canto 11 · Dundubhi · 📍 Himálaya)
- With: Himálaya
- “The Vánar Báli, brave and wise, Son of the God who rules the skies, Sways, glorious in his high renown, Kishkindhá his imperial town. Well may that valiant lord who knows Each art of war his might oppose To thine, in equal battle set, As Namuehi and Indra met. Go, if thy soul desire the fray; To Báli’s city speed away, And that unconquered hero meet Whose fame is high for warlike feat.”
- Báli fights Dundubhi and kills him.(Book IV, Canto 11 · Dundubhi · 📍 Kishkindhá)
- With: Báli
- “Him Báli raised with mighty strain And dashed upon the ground again; Where, bruised and shattered, in a tide Of rushing blood, the demon died.”
Book IV, Canto 9 · Sugríva’s Story
- child: Máyáví “The fiend Máyáví,—him of yore To Dundubhi his mother bore,—”
Book IV, Canto 11 · Dundubhi
- enemies with Ocean “He reached the king of rolling waves Whose gems are piled in sunless caves, And threw his challenge to the sea; ‘Come forth, O King, and fight with me.’”
- enemies with Himálaya “Then Dundubhi, with hideous roar, Huge fragments from the summit tore Vast as Airávat, white with snow, And hurled them to the plains below.”
- enemies with Báli “Him Báli raised with mighty strain And dashed upon the ground again; Where, bruised and shattered, in a tide Of rushing blood, the demon died.”
- with Ráma (Ráma kicked Dundubhi’s remains as a demonstration of strength.) “He touched it with his foot in play And sent it twenty leagues away.”
- with Báli (interaction) “Come, meet me in the fight this day, And learn my strength by bold assay.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Rámáyan of Válmíki. Made with Rho MD.