Laṅkā
Mandodarī
Chief queen of Rāvaṇa, daughter of Maya. Her lament is among the finest passages of grief in the poem.
Yuddha KāṇḍaVālmīki (primary text)In the text
Mandodarī speaks in Yuddha Kāṇḍa sarga 111, on the field where her husband has just fallen. She names his victories and shows Rāvaṇa both as a husband and as a man who would not listen. It is one of the longest passages of grief in the book.
Primary text: Śrīmad Vālmīkīya Rāmāyaṇa, Gita Press, Gorakhpur. Later traditions and living-tradition associations are labelled as such. Return to the Rāmāyaṇa World.