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  2. Vibhishana - Wikipedia

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    Vibhishana (Sanskrit: विभीषण, romanized: Vibhīṣaṇa, lit. 'formidable') [ 2 ] is the younger brother of Ravana , the King of Lanka , in the ancient Indian epic Ramayana . [ 3 ] Though a rakshasa himself, Vibhishana turned his back on Ravana, and defected to Rama 's side, owing to his dharma . [ 4 ]

  3. List of rulers of Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Vibhishana was given immortality when Rama was leaving the world to go back to Vaikuntha, he is said to still rule the kingdom during the period of the Pandavas and also to this day.. According to the Mahabharata, the Pandava Sahadeva visited this kingdom during his southern military campaign for the rajasuya of Yudhishthira.

  4. Trijata - Wikipedia

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    In the Ramayana, Sita has few other rakshasi benefactors besides Trijata.When Hanuman – the vanara-general of Rama who was tasked to find Sita – meets her in Lanka, she tells him that the wife of Vibhishana (the brother of Ravana who sides with Rama in the war) sent her daughter Kala (in other recensions of the Ramayana, known as Nanda or Anala) to proclaim Ravana's intention to not ...

  5. Ravana - Wikipedia

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    Ravana and his two brothers, Kumbhakarna and Vibhishana, performed penance on Mount Gokarna for 10,000 years and won boons from Brahma. Ravana was blessed with a boon that would make him invincible to all the creations of Brahma, except for humans. [ 19 ]

  6. Ranganathaswamy Temple, Srirangam - Wikipedia

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    After Rama, an avatar of Vishnu, had killed the evil demon Ravana, he gave it to King Vibhishana who wanted to be with Rama. [32] When Vibhishana passed through Tiruchi en route to Sri Lanka where he had become the king, the Srirangam Vimanam would not move from the island. So, he gave it to a local king called Dharmavarma, if the king ...

  7. Kumbhakarna - Wikipedia

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    Vibhishana narrated that Kumbhakarna had been born with immense strength, having subdued both Indra and Yama, striking the former in the chest with the broken tusk of Airavata. At the bequest of Indra, Brahma cursed the rakshasa to "sleep like he is dead". On Ravana's request, he commuted the curse to have the rakshasa sleep for six months at a ...

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    The last image we have of Patrick Cagey is of his first moments as a free man. He has just walked out of a 30-day drug treatment center in Georgetown, Kentucky, dressed in gym clothes and carrying a Nike duffel bag. The moment reminds his father of Patrick’s graduation from college, and he takes a picture of his son with his cell phone.

  9. Vidura - Wikipedia

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    For example, in the Ramayana, the sage Narada was born as Vibhishana. [15] Vidura Niti, or Vidura's Statecraft, narrated in the form of a dialogue between Vidura and King Dhritarashtra, is considered the precursor in some ways of Chanakya Neeti by Chanakya. Vidura is held to be a paragon of truth, dutifulness, impartial judgement and steadfast ...