Śántá
Family: Angas · Role: princess · First appears: Book I, Canto 8 · Sumantra’s Speech
In Book I, Canto 8, Sumantra tells how Lomapád was to give his daughter Śántá in marriage to Rishyaśring. In Canto 10, Śántá went with Rishyaśring and Daśaratha to Daśaratha’s city; Sumantra says Daśaratha would have a daughter, Śántá, of “happy destiny.”
In Canto 17, Śántá agreed to leave her comfortable life and return to the forest with her husband. Kauśalyá, Sumitrá, and Kaikeyí wept as they bade her farewell, while Daśaratha’s thoughts remained fixed on his friend Rishyaśring. In Canto 18, Rishyaśring embraced Śántá when they reunited.
Relationship record
Book I, Canto 8 · Sumantra’s Speech
- parent: Lomapád “And when the boy is hither led To him thy daughter duly wed.”
- married with Rishyaśring “Thus shall the holy Rishyaśring To Lomapád, the mighty king, By wedlock be allied; For Śántá, fairest of the fair, In mind and grace beyond compare, Shall be his royal bride.”
Book I, Canto 9 · Rishyasring
- parent: Lomapád “And gave to be the Bráhman’s bride His own fair daughter, lotus-eyed.”
- married with Rishyaśring “Thus loved and honoured by the king, The glorious Bráhman Rishyaśring Passed in that royal town his life With Śántá his beloved wife.”
Book I, Canto 10 · Rishyasring Invited
- parent: Daśaratha “And his a daughter fair shall be, Śántá of happy destiny.”
- parent: Lomapád (Lomapád takes Śántá as his daughter.) “The father, swift to feel for woe, Shall on his friend his child bestow; And he shall take her and depart To his own town with joyous heart.”
- married with Rishyaśring “The maiden home in triumph led, To Rishyaśring the king shall wed.”
Book I, Canto 17 · Rishyasring’s Return
- parent: Daśaratha “The king attended to the wild That hermit and his own dear child,”
- married with Rishyaśring “The glorious hermit Rishyaśring Drew near and thus besought the king: ‘Return, my honoured lord, I pray, Return, upon thy homeward way.’”
- friends with Daśaratha (The text calls Rishyaśring his friend, not Śántá; omitted.) “But when the sage had past from view King Daśaratha turned him too, Still fixing on his friend each thought. With such deep love his breast was fraught.”
Book I, Canto 18 · Rishyasring’s Departure
- married with Rishyaśring “See, honour’s source, thy son’s dear bride.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Rámáyan of Válmíki. Made with Rho MD.