Tataka
Hindu · numen · heroic age · Recorded classification
Type is 'numen' because the sources make her a yaksha by birth and a rakshasa by curse, neither of which is a human being; vitalStatus records the killing. The curse that transformed her is stated and its author is not, because the treatment consulted does not name him.
Children
Relations
- slain by: RamaNon-symmetric. She is the first being Rama kills, which makes this the opening edge of his whole career and one the corpus did not have.Reference treatment: Rama killed Tataka with a single shot from his bow. (secondary)
Sources
- Tataka is a yaksha woman cursed into a rakshasa, mother of Maricha, killed by Rama with one arrow.: Reference treatments of Tataka and of the Bala Kanda. (secondary)