Manthará
Family: Ayodhyá · Role: handmaid · First appears: Book II, Canto 7 · Manthará’s Lament
In Book II, Canto 7, Manthará tells Kaikeyí that Daśaratha plans to consecrate Ráma as heir. Kaikeyí gives her a jewel for the news, but Manthará urges her to seek the two boons Daśaratha had promised: to make Bharat king and banish Ráma. In Canto 9, Kaikeyí says she and Manthará are “close to thee in friendship knit.”
In Canto 78, Śatrughna seizes and drags Manthará, whom he blames for Daśaratha’s death and Ráma’s exile. Bharat intervenes, and Śatrughna releases her.
Relationship record
Life events
- Manthará tells Kaikeyí that Daśaratha plans to consecrate Ráma as heir.(Book II, Canto 7 · Manthará’s Lament)
- Kaikeyí rewards Manthará with a jewel for bringing her the news.(Book II, Canto 7 · Manthará’s Lament)
- With: Kaikeyí
- “And joyous at the tidings gave A jewel to the hump-back slave;”
- Daśaratha promised Kaikeyí two boons after she rescued him wounded from battle.(Book II, Canto 9 · The Plot)
- With: Kaikeyí
- “Thy husband, senseless, by thine aid Was from the battle field conveyed, And wounded nigh to death thy lord Was by thy care to health restored. Well pleased the grateful monarch sware To grant thy first and second prayer.”
- Kaikeyí resolved to seek Daśaratha’s promised boons to make Bharat king and banish Ráma.(Book II, Canto 9 · The Plot)
- With: Kaikeyí
- “Or, Ráma banished as we planned, My son made king shall rule the land.”
- Śatrughna seized and dragged Manthará, then released her after Bharat intervened.(Book II, Canto 78 · Manthará Punished)
- With: Śatrughna
- “He spake; and moved by fury laid His mighty hand upon the maid, Who as her fellows ringed her round, Made with her cries the hall resound.”
- Bharat restrained Śatrughna, who released Manthará.(Book II, Canto 78 · Manthará Punished)
Book II, Canto 7 · Manthará’s Lament
- lord: Kaikeyí “It chanced a slave-born handmaid, bred With Queen Kaikeyí, fancy-led, Mounted the stair and stood upon”
- patron: Kaikeyí “And joyous at the tidings gave A jewel to the hump-back slave;”
- enemies with Ráma “From Ráma, in her wicked hate, Kaikeyí’s love to alienate,”
Book II, Canto 8 · Manthará’s Speech
- enemies with Ráma “Come, Ráma from his home expel An exile in the woods to dwell.”
- lord: Kaikeyí “Her slave with us who serve thee, thou Wilt see thy son to Ráma bow,”
Book II, Canto 9 · The Plot
- lord: Kaikeyí “The wicked maid The mandate of her queen obeyed,”
- enemies with Ráma “And darkly plotting Ráma’s fall Responded to Kaikeyí’s call.”
- friends with Kaikeyí “And close to thee in friendship knit Deep in my heart have treasured it.”
Book II, Canto 10 · Dasaratha’s Speech
- lord: Kaikeyí “Devoted to her queen, and swayed By hopes of gain and bliss, the maid Rejoiced, her lady’s purpose known, And deemed the prize she sought her own.”
Book II, Canto 59 · Dasaratha’s Lament
- with Kaikeyí (Manthará's words influenced Kaikeyí.) “The hump-back’s words its monsters dread;”
Book II, Canto 77 · The Gathering Of The Ashes
- enemies with Śatrughna “The source is Manthará, dire and dark, Kaikeyí is the ravening shark:”
Book II, Canto 78 · Manthará Punished
- enemies with Ráma “Here is the wicked pest,” he cried, “Through whom the king thy father died, And Ráma wanders in the wood:”
- enemies with Daśaratha “Here is the wicked pest,” he cried, “Through whom the king thy father died, And Ráma wanders in the wood:”
- enemies with Śatrughna “His eyes with burning wrath aglow, Śatrughna, shatterer of the foe, Dragged on the ground the hump-back maid”
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Extracted from the original text of The Rámáyan of Válmíki. Made with Rho MD.