Dhanyamālinī
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Dhanyamalini, also referred to as Dhanyamala and Dhanyamali, is one of the thousand junior wives of Ravana, the antagonist of the Hindu epic Ramayana. She appears rarely in the epic and is famous as the mother of Atikaya. In some other versions of the Ramayana, Dhanyamali had three sons from Ravana — Narantaka, Devantaka, and Trishira.
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- Deity.type
- Hindu
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- Dhanyamalini (centre) and Mandodari (left) with their sister-in-law Shurpanakha (right); a scene from the Ramakien in Wat Suthat, Bangkok.
- Deity.affiliation
- Rakshasa
- Deity.abode
- Lanka
- Deity.spouse
- Ravana
- Deity.children
- Narantaka, Devantaka, Atikaya and Trishira (versions of Ramayana)
- Deity.name
- Dhanyamalini
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Dhanyamalini, also referred to as Dhanyamala and Dhanyamali, is one of the thousand junior wives of Ravana, the antagonist of the Hindu epic Ramayana. She appears rarely in the epic and is famous as the mother of Atikaya. In some other versions of the Ramayana, Dhanyamali had three sons from Ravana — Narantaka, Devantaka, and Trishira.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dhanyamālinī” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.