Virúpáksha

Family: Rákshases · Role: warrior · First appears: Book VI, Canto 96 · Rávan’s Sally

Life events

Sugríva and Angad fight three single combats against the giants, who fall one in each canto.(Book VI, Canto 96 · Rávan’s Sally)
- With: Sugríva Angad Mahodar Mahápárśva
- “three single combats between Sugríva and Angad on the Vánar side and Virúpáksha, Mahodar, and Mahápárśva on the side of the giants. The weapons of the Vánars are trees and rocks; the giants fight with swords, axes, and bows and arrows. The details are generally the same as those of preceding duels. The giants fall, one in each Canto.”

enemies with Sugríva “three single combats between Sugríva and Angad on the Vánar side and Virúpáksha, Mahodar, and Mahápárśva on the side of the giants.”
enemies with Angad “three single combats between Sugríva and Angad on the Vánar side and Virúpáksha, Mahodar, and Mahápárśva on the side of the giants.”

enemies with Angad (The passage places Angad and Sugríva's fighting alongside the named warriors' deaths.) “Still Angad and Sugríva, wrought To fury, for the Vánars fought. Crushed with huge rocks through chest and side Mahodar, Mahápárśva died, And Virúpáksha stained with gore Dropped on the plain to rise no more.”
enemies with Sugríva (The passage places Angad and Sugríva's fighting alongside the named warriors' deaths.) “Still Angad and Sugríva, wrought To fury, for the Vánars fought. Crushed with huge rocks through chest and side Mahodar, Mahápárśva died, And Virúpáksha stained with gore Dropped on the plain to rise no more.”

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