RamayanaRavana
Ravana: who Ravana is in the Ramayana and the role in the story, in plain words.
The ten-headed king of Lanka, a great scholar and devotee of Shiva, who by his boons became very strong and carried off Sita. His defeat is celebrated at Dussehra; he is also remembered in some regions as a learned figure.
See the story of the whole epic in seven books and the other characters.
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A retelling in our own words of a story that is told in many different ways across India and Asia. Tellers differ on many episodes; where it matters we say so. It is not a scholarly translation.