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The Vamana Purana offers a legend regarding the birth of Matali. A son was once born to the sage Shamika and his wife, Tapasvini. During the great Devasura war between Indra and Andhaka, Indra's celestial thunderbolt is described to have broken, and upon the counsel of Vishnu, the king of the devas propitiated Agni to gain a new divine weapon.
Book 1: 9; [186] Book 2:--; Book 3: 1; [187] Book 4:--; Book 5: 5; [188] Book 6:--; For in like manner as the lord of the world, the god of gods, Janardana , descends amongst mankind (in various shapes), so does his coadjutrix Shri .
Indra is typically featured as a guardian deity on the east side of a Hindu temple. Modern depiction of Indra, Old Kalyan Print. Indra was a prominent deity in the Historical Vedic religion. [32] In Vedic times Indra was described in Rig Veda 6.30.4 as superior to any other god.
[2] [3] [4] He is the only warrior in the entire Ramayana to defeat both Rama and Lakshmana twice while they were both armed by making them unconscious in a battle with the help of astras and sorcery (once by using "Nagapashastra" and another time by using Brahmastra) and finally got killed by Lakshmana. [5]
The Bala Kanda of the epic Ramayana narrates that Rambha is instructed by Indra to disturb the penance of Vishvamitra, a sage who had been previously seduced by another apsara named Menaka. Realising Indra had sent another nymph to lure him, an infuriated Vishvamitra curses her to transform into a rock for ten thousand years till a Brahmin ...
Ramayana characters - Rama and Sita enthroned, surrounded by sage Vashishtha and Rama's brothers Lakshmana, Bharata, Shatrughna. Hanuman seated at the feet of Rama. Ramayana is one of the two major Sanskrit ancient epics (Itihasas) of Hindu literature. It was composed by sage Valmiki. This is a list of important figures that appear in the epic.
— Valmiki, Ramayana, Kishkindha Kanda, Chapter 13 Ignoring his wife Tara 's pleas to make peace with Rama, Bali sets out to duel his brother once more, and is slain by Rama's arrow to his breast. Vali and Rama engage in a conversation about the morality of Rama's actions, to which Rama retorts that the vanara had conducted himself in a ...
The book is divided into six chapters, called Kandam in Tamil. The Kandams are further divided into 113 sections called Padalam (படலம்) in Tamil. These 113 sections contain approximately 10569 verses of the epic. [13] Bala Kandam (Chapter: Childhood) Ayodhya Kandam (Chapter: Ayodhya) Aranya Kandam (Chapter: Forest)