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Rāvaṇa
रावणः sa रावण hi இராவணன் ta
King of Lankā in the Hindu epic Ramayana
- Child of Vishrava
- Consort of Mandodarī, Dhanyamālinī
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Family
The family of Rāvaṇa
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 15
Kinship in an account 10
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (father) Vishrava Father of Ravana
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parent of (child) Akshayakumara Youngest son of Ravana - parent of (child) Atikaya character of Indian epic Ramayana
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parent of (child) Indrajit Son of Rāvaṇa and Mandodarī in Indian epic Ramayana -
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parent of (father) Suvannamaccha fictional character -
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partner of (spouse) Dhanyamālinī second wife of Rāvaṇa -
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partner of (spouse) Mandodarī Wife of Rāvaṇa -
sibling of Kumbhakarṇa younger brother of Ravana in the Ramayana -
sibling of Surpanakha Evil character of Ramayana (Ravana's younger sister) -
sibling of Vibhīṣaṇa Brother of Rāvaṇa in Ramayana
Family 5
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (child) Vishrava Father of Ravana
- parent of (father) Indrajit Son of Rāvaṇa and Mandodarī in Indian epic Ramayana
- sibling of Kumbhakarṇa younger brother of Ravana in the Ramayana
- sibling of Surpanakha Evil character of Ramayana (Ravana's younger sister)
- sibling of Vibhīṣaṇa Brother of Rāvaṇa in Ramayana
Texts
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
Later works
Later works that name Rāvaṇa
Written in 1500 CE or later, and not religious texts: works that retell or borrow the figure, not sources for the life.
What this means
Sorted out of the texts by each work’s own recorded date on the source clock, and by its record not marking it as a religious text: the split is worked out here, not stated by any source. A religious text of any date stays among the texts.
Connections
How Rāvaṇa connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Recorded events and days 1
What this means
Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began.
Does not imply that these are all the events in its history · that Wikidata ranks the events by importance
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
12 statements on this record
- 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 10 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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