Shurpanakha
Hindu · mortal · heroic age · Recorded classification
Her parentIds point at `hindu_vishrava` and `hindu_kaikesi`, the two records the corpus already uses for Ravana, Kumbhakarna and Vibhishana, so she joins the family in the data rather than standing beside it. The germination of Ravana's enmity is in this figure and in Maricha, and the registry held neither.
Parentage
Relations
- sister of: RavanaNon-symmetric rather than 'sibling', so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Ravana, Kumbhakarna and Vibhishana records — all three of which the corpus holds with the same parents this record names.Reference treatment: Shurpanakha approached Ravana, her brother, and proposed that he steal Sita. (secondary)
- mutilated by: LakshmanaNon-symmetric.Reference treatment: Lakshmana cut out Shurpanakha's ears and nose. (secondary)
- incited: RavanaThe edge the whole war hangs on. The corpus held the abductor and the abducted and not the woman who told him to do it.Reference treatment: Shurpanakha proposed to Ravana that he steal Sita. (secondary)
Sources
- Shurpanakha is Ravana's sister, mutilated by Lakshmana after she attacks Sita, who then persuades Ravana to abduct Sita.: Reference treatments of Shurpanakha, of Maricha and of Ravana's enmity with Rama. (secondary)