Keśini

Role: queen · First appears: Book I, Canto 39 · The Sons Of Sagar

Life events

Bhrigu granted Sagar's queens a choice between bearing one heir or sixty thousand sons.(Book I, Canto 39 · The Sons Of Sagar · 📍 Himálaya)
- With: Sagar Sumati Bhrigu
- “And, when a hundred years had fled, Thus the most truthful Bhrigu said: ‘From thee, O Sagar, blameless King, A mighty host of sons shall spring, And thou shalt win a glorious name Which none, O Chief, but thou shall claim. One of thy queens a son shall bear, Maintainer of thy race and heir; And of the other there shall be Sons sixty thousand born to thee.’”
Keśini chose to bear one heir, while Sumati chose to bear sixty thousand sons.(Book I, Canto 39 · The Sons Of Sagar)
- With: Sumati
- “Then Keśini The mother of one heir would be. Sumati, sister of the king Of all the birds that ply the wing, To that illustrious Bráhman sued That she might bear the multitude”
Keśini gave birth to Asamanj, Sagar's heir.(Book I, Canto 39 · The Sons Of Sagar)
- With: Sagar Asamanj
- “Time passed. The elder consort bare A son called Asamanj, the heir.”

married with Sagar “His honoured consort, fair of face, Sprang from Vidarbha’s royal race, Keśini, famed from early youth”
child: Asamanj “Time passed. The elder consort bare A son called Asamanj, the heir.”

Extracted from the original text of The Rámáyan of Válmíki. Made with Rho MD.