Ravana in a sentence

There is a sub-plot to Ramayana, prevalent in some parts of India, relating the adventures of Ahi Ravana and Mahi Ravana, the evil brother of Ravana, which enhances the role of Hanuman in the story.

As a consequence, an unprecedented battle in history was fought between Ram and Ravana, at the end of which Ram defeated and killed Ravana (the day we celebrate as Dussehra).

He locates Sita in ashoka grove, who is wooed and threatened by Ravana and his rakshasis to marry Ravana.

It is believed to have been composed afresh by King Rama I in the 18th century and the main villain in this book, Thotsakan, is like Ravana of the Hindu text.

According to the story, Rama, the prince of Ayodhya, rescues his wife Sita from the clutches of Ravana, who had abducted her.

In the 8th century Tibetan Ramayana, we find the only explanation why in many artworks Ravana has a head of a donkey on top of his nine human heads.

Saif was last seen in the mythological film Adipurush, wherein he essayed the role of Ravana.

This race, however, became extinct through intermarriage with other tribes in India, and also, many died in the war with Ravana.

Clad in black and gold, Dakshina Vaidyanathan demonstrated an excerpt from her production, Shoorpanakha, which shows the more familiar demoness as ameenakshi, the beautiful sister of Ravana.

Ravana got the boon from Brahma that no creature of Lord Brahma will be able to kill him except a manava…that is a human.

S: Yes, Correct, he threw away Kubera his half-brother and snatched his Puhpak Viman (A self-propelled plane in those times which took verbal orders and navigated wherever its master Ravana wanted.

In 1708, Jai Singh, the Kachvaha ruler of Amer depicted himself as Ram setting out for battle against Ravana.

It is also the time when artistes across the country take part in Ramlila events to narrate the tale of Rama and Ravana from Tulsidas’ Ramcharitmanas.

It was Ravana who invited the Kashyapa Buddha to Sri Lanka, say some.

Like every year, the Jharpada Durga Puja committee has made elaborate arrangements for Ravana Podi Utsav this time too.

Lord Ram rescued Seta, his wife, from the evil Ravana (king of demons) who kidnapped her after seeing her once in the woods.

Pothiyil Ranjith Chakyar briefly enacted how Ravana obtained Siva’s formidable sword ‘Chandrahaasa’.

Shoorpnakha subsequently went to Ravana and told him the whole incident and asked him to exact revenge on them.

The most famous would be the one that commemorates the return of Lord Rama (along with Ma Sita and Lakshman) from his 14-year-long exile and vanquishing the demon-king Ravana.

The turnout at the historic Gandhi Maidan – which has been the venue for 'Ravana Vadha' since ages – was thinner than usual, understandably because of the destruction wrought upon the city by heavy rainfall which has left many localities waterlogged.