Dhanyamalini, also referred to as Dhanyamala and Dhanyamali, is the second wife of
Ravana
According to the Mahakavya, Hindu epic, ''Ramayana'', Ravana was a kingJustin W. Henry, ''Ravana's Kingdom: The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below'', Oxford University Press, p.3 of the island of Lanka, in which he is the chief antag ...
, the antagonist of the Hindu epic ''
Ramayana
The ''Ramayana'' (; ), also known as ''Valmiki Ramayana'', as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics ...
''. She appears rarely in the epic and is famous as the mother of
Atikaya. In some other versions of the ''Ramayana'', Dhanyamali had three sons from Ravana —
Narantaka,
Devantaka, and
Trishira
Trishira () is a rakshasa prince featured in the Ramayana. He is one of the sons of Ravana and Dhanyamalini and his brothers are Atikaya, Narantaka and Devantaka.
Legend
The ''Ramayana'' states that Trishira engaged Rama in a fight and hit ...
.
References
Women in Hindu mythology
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