The Rámáyan of Válmíki

Máyáví

Role: fiend · First appears: Book IV, Canto 9 · Sugríva’s Story

Life events

  • Máyáví challenged Báli to fight, and Báli later struck the demon down.(Book IV, Canto 9 · Sugríva’s Story)
    • With: Báli
    • “When sleep had chained each weary frame To vast Kishkindhá gates he came, And, shouting through the shades of night, Challenged his foeman to the fight.”
  • Máyáví fled from Báli and hid in a cave.(Book IV, Canto 46 · Sugríva’s Tale)
    • “From Báli’s arm Máyáví fled To Malaya’s hill, and strove to save His life by hiding in the cave.”
  • Báli pursued Máyáví into the cave to kill him.(Book IV, Canto 46 · Sugríva’s Tale)
    • With: Báli
    • “I told how Báli sought, to kill His foe, the hollow of the hill;”

Book IV, Canto 9 · Sugríva’s Story

  • enemies with Báli “For woman’s love in strife engaged, A deadly war with Báli waged.”
  • parent: Dundubhi “The fiend Máyáví,—him of yore To Dundubhi his mother bore,—”

Book IV, Canto 10 · Sugríva’s Story

  • enemies with Báli “How fierce Máyáví, fiend and foe, Came to Kishkindhá’s gate by night, And dared me in his wrath to fight.”

Book IV, Canto 46 · Sugríva’s Tale

  • enemies with Báli (Báli sought to kill his foe, Máyáví.) “From Báli’s arm Máyáví fled To Malaya’s hill, and strove to save His life by hiding in the cave. I told how Báli sought, to kill His foe, the hollow of the hill;”

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