Suketu

Family: Videha · Role: spirit · First appears: Book I, Canto 27 · The Birth Of Tádaká

Life events

• Brahmá bestowed Táḍaká on childless Suketu with the strength of a thousand elephants.(Book I, Canto 27 · The Birth Of Tádaká)
  • With: Brahmá Táḍaká
  • “The mighty Sire was pleased to show His favour, and a child bestow. Táḍaká named, most fair to see, A pearl among the maids was she, And matched, for such was Brahmá’s dower, A thousand elephants in power.”

Book I, Canto 27 · The Birth Of Tádaká

• patron: Brahmá “The mighty Sire was pleased to show His favour, and a child bestow.”
• child: Táḍaká “Childless was he, and free from crime In rites austere he passed his time. The mighty Sire was pleased to show His favour, and a child bestow. Táḍaká named, most fair to see,”

Book I, Canto 71 · Janak’s Pedigree

• parent: Nandivardhan “His son Suketu, hero brave,”
• child: Devarát “To Devarát, existence gave.”

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