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Duryodhana's brother who dragged Draupadi by the hair into the assembly and tried to strip her. Bhima kept his vow: he tore open Dushasana's chest on the battlefield and drank his blood.

Twin of Lava, raised by Valmiki, taught to sing his father's story before his father's court. The two boys' recital reveals their identity and brings the exiled Sita's story to its end.

Twin son of Rama and Sita, born in Valmiki's forest hermitage after Sita's banishment. With his brother Kusha he sang the Ramayana before Rama himself, the epic containing its own first performance.

The Trojan prince asked to judge which goddess was fairest. He chose Aphrodite, who paid him with Helen, another man's wife, and doomed his city. The archer whose shot (guided by Apollo) found Achilles' one mortal spot.

The youngest of the four brothers, twin of Lakshmana, who served Bharata as Lakshmana served Rama. Slayer of the demon Lavana in the epic's later books.

Son of Odysseus, an infant when the fleet sailed and a young man hunting news of his father when the Odyssey opens. Guided by Athena, his search is the poem's coming-of-age story, ending with father and son fighting side by side.