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Shatrughna told Lavana that he would kill him and send him to Yama’s abode. The rakshasa flung a tree, but Shatrughna shattered it into a hundred p...

Madhu, the rakshasa, married Kumbhinasi and had a son named Lavana. The sages told Rama that Lavana possessed Rudra’s trident that his father gave ...

Rama told his brothers that Sita wanted to spend time in the ashramas. He asked them to ensure Sita was taken to Valmiki’s ashrama, which was like ...

Rama bowed to Agastya and told him that even though Ravana and Vali were powerful, they were nothing before Hanuman. Rama then recounted Hanuman’s ...

Indra was deeply distressed at his humiliation. Brahma then reminded him of how he had violated Ahalya, who had been given by Brahma himself to the...

Ravana advised his widowed sister, Surpanakha, to stay with her brother, Khara. Ravana then gave Khara a large army led by Dushana. With the army a...

Ravana then met the divine sage Narada in a forest. The sage praised Ravana’s valour and asked why he killed innocent humans. Narada told Ravana th...

Dashagriva was furious and announced that if he could not cross the mountain, he would uproot it and throw it away. Bending low, he inserted his ar...

In this post on our Ramayana for beginners series we cover the marriage of Ravana and his brothers and his conflict with his step-brother Kubera.

Read the post to find out about Ravana's meeting with Mayasura and his war against Alkapuri. 

The three brothers summoned the architect Vishwakarma and asked him to build them a grand city just like Indra’s Amaravati. Vishwakarma then built ...

After Shriram was coronated the king of Ayodhya, the seven sages came to visit him. During their visit they narrated the backstory of Rakshasas. How the Rakshasa ancestors of Ravana came into existance and how their lineage progressed?

Hanuman then went to Nandigrama, met Bharata, and told him Rama had returned after killing Ravana. Bharata was so filled with joy that he swooned. ...