Nikumbha

Family: Rákshases · Role: warrior · First appears: Book VI, Canto 8 · Prahasta’s Speech

Life events

• Sugríva strikes Nikumbha down, and he lies dying in the dust.(Book VI, Canto 75 · The Night Attack)
  • With: Sugríva
  • “Sugríva, rising to the blow, Raised his huge hand and smote his foe. And in the dust the giant lay Gasping in blood his soul away.”

Book VI, Canto 8 · Prahasta’s Speech

• enemies with Ráma “I, only I, will take the field, And Raghu’s son his life shall yield.”
• lord: Rávaṇ (Nikumbha urges the chiefs to remain beside their monarch.) “Within these walls, O Chiefs, abide, Nor part ye from our monarch’s side.”

Book VI, Canto 43 · The Single Combats

• enemies with Níla “And Níla with Nikumbha fought.”

Book VI, Canto 75 · The Night Attack

• siblings with Kumbha “Then through the gates Nikumbha hied, And Kumbha by his brother’s side,”
• enemies with Sugríva “Sugríva, rising to the blow, Raised his huge hand and smote his foe.”

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