Maricha

The golden deer is the single most depicted scene in the whole Ramayana after the coronation, and the deer is a person with a name, a mother, a history with the hero and an order he did not want to obey. A corpus of figures should hold him, and this one did not.

Parentage

• Tataka

Domains

• shape shifting

Relations

• agent of: Ravana
• lured: Rama

Sources

• Reference treatments of Maricha, of Tataka and of the golden deer.