Maricha
Hindu · numen · heroic age · Recorded classification
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
- parent: Tataka
Domains
- shape shifting
Relations
- agent of: RavanaNon-symmetric.Reference treatment: Maricha obeyed Ravana's command and transformed himself into a golden deer. (secondary)
- lured: RamaNon-symmetric. The abduction is only possible because of this one act, and the corpus held the abduction's three principals and not its instrument.Reference treatment of the golden deer luring Rama away from Sita. (secondary)
Sources
- Maricha is the rakshasa son of Tataka who takes the form of a golden deer at Ravana's command to draw Rama away from Sita.: Reference treatments of Maricha, of Tataka and of the golden deer. (secondary)