Menaká

Role: nymph · First appears: Book I, Canto 63 · Menaká

Life events

• Menaká stayed with Viśvámitra, and his austerities were interrupted for ten years.(Book I, Canto 63 · Menaká · 📍 Pushkar)
  • With: Viśvámitra
  • “The fairest of the fair Made for awhile her dwelling there, While day by day the wild delight Stayed vow austere and fervent rite There as the winsome charmer wove Her spells around him in the grove, And bound him in a golden chain, Five sweet years fled, and five again.”
• Viśvámitra, repenting, bade Menaká go and resumed his penance in the northern hills.(Book I, Canto 63 · Menaká)
  • With: Viśvámitra
  • “With gentle words he bade her go, Then sought the northern hills of snow. With firm resolve he vowed to beat The might of love beneath his feet.”

Book I, Canto 63 · Menaká

• admirer: Viśvámitra “Welcome, sweet nymph! O deign, I pray, In these calm shades awhile to stay. To me some gracious favour show, For love has set my breast aglow.”

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