Mandodari

Indian mythology · queen · wisdom unheeded

Ravana's chief queen, wise and blameless, who begged him to return Sita. Counted among the five perfect women of tradition, married to its most infamous abductor.

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The Fall of Ravana

Kumbhakarna has fallen telling his brother he was wrong; Indrajit has fallen to Lakshmana. Ravana himself takes the field, and Rama, aiming at last for the heart rather than the ten heads that regrow, ends the war. Mandodari laments a husband greater than his own choice; Vibhishana lights the pyre.