Mandodarí

Family: Rákshases · Role: queen · First appears: Book V, Canto 10 · Rávan Asleep

Life events

• Mandodarí counselled Rávaṇ to make peace, but he refused to listen.(Book VI, Canto 113 · Mandodarí’s Lament)
  • With: Rávaṇ
  • “I counselled peace in anxious fear: I counselled, but thou wouldst not hear.”

Book V, Canto 10 · Rávan Asleep

• married with Rávaṇ (Mandodarí is identified as Rávaṇ’s wife.) “There by her husband’s side was seen Mandodarí the favourite queen,”

Book VI, Canto 113 · Mandodarí’s Lament

• married with Rávaṇ (Mandodarí speaks of her husband.) “With thee in days of old I trod Each spot beloved by nymph and God;”

Book VI, Canto 125 · The Return

• married with Rávaṇ “There knelt Mandodarí and shed Her tears in floods for Rávan dead.”

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