Vidyujjihva

Family: Rákshases · Role: magic practitioner · First appears: Book VI, Canto 31 · The Magic Head

Life events

• Rávaṇ ordered Vidyujjihva to prepare a counterfeit head, shafts, and bow resembling Ráma’s.(Book VI, Canto 31 · The Magic Head · 📍 palace)
  • With: Rávaṇ
  • “Come, Sítá with thine arts beguile. With magic skill and deftest care A head like Ráma’s own prepare. This head, long shafts and mighty bow, To Janak’s daughter will we show.”
• Vidyujjihva made the magical head, and Rávaṇ rewarded him with a valuable ornament.(Book VI, Canto 31 · The Magic Head)
  • With: Rávaṇ
  • “He ceased: Vidyujjihva obeyed, And wondrous magic skill displayed; And Rávaṇ for the art he showed An ornament of price bestowed.”
• Rávaṇ had Vidyujjihva present the magical head and weapons to Sítá as false proof that Ráma was dead.(Book VI, Canto 31 · The Magic Head)
  • With: Rávaṇ Sítá
  • “‘Vidyujjihva,’ cried Rávaṇ, ‘place The head before the lady’s face, And let her see with weeping eyes That low in death her husband lies.’”

Book VI, Canto 31 · The Magic Head

• lord: Rávaṇ “Then, as the surest hope of all, The monarch bade his servants call Vidyujjihva, whom magic skill Made master of the means of ill.”
• patron: Rávaṇ “And Rávaṇ for the art he showed An ornament of price bestowed.”

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