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War of Lanka (Ram Chandra)
War of Lanka (Ram Chandra)
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LANKA WILL BURN. DARKNESS WILL PERISH.
BUT CAN LIGHT ENDURE?
INDIA, 3400 BCE.
Greed. Rage. Grief. Love. Smouldering tinder, waiting to trigger a war.
But this war is different. This one is for Dharma. This war is for the greatest Goddess of them all.
Sita has been kidnapped. Defiantly, she dares Raavan to kill her – she’d rather die than allow Ram to surrender.
Ram is beside himself with grief and rage. He prepares for war. Fury is his fuel. Calm focus, his guide.
Raavan thought he was invincible. He thought he’d negotiate and force a surrender. Little did he know …
The first three books of the second-fastest-selling book series in Indian publishing history – the Ram Chandra Series – explore the individual journeys of Ram, Sita and Raavan. In this, the epic fourth book of the series, their narrative strands crash into each other, and explode in a slaughterous war.
Will Ram defeat the ruthless and fiendish Raavan, constrained as he is by the laws of Dharma? Will Lanka burn to a cinder or fight back like a cornered tiger? Will the terrible costs of war be worth the victory?
Most importantly, will the Vishnu rise? And will the real enemies of the land fear the Vishnu? For fear is the mother of love.
| Publisher | HarperCollins India |
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 500 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 9356291527 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-9356291522 |
| Item Weight | 363 g |
| Dimensions | 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm |
Akampana: A smuggler; one of Raavan’s closest aides
Arishtanemi: Military chief of the Malayaputras; right-hand man of Vishwamitra
Annapoorna Devi: A brilliant musician who lived in Agastyakootam the capital of the Malayaputras.
Ashwapati: King of the northwestern kingdom of Kekaya; father of Kaikeyi and a loyal ally of Dashrath
Bharat: Ram’s half-brother; son of Dashrath and Kaikeyi
Dashrath: Chakravarti king of Kosala and emperor of the Sapt Sindhu; father of Ram, Bharat, Lakshman and Shatrughan
Hanuman: A Naga and a member of the Vayuputra tribe
Indrajit: Son of Raavan and Mandodari
Janak: King of Mithila; father of Sita
Jatayu: A captain of the Malayaputra tribe; Naga friend of Sita and Ram
Kaikesi: Rishi Vishrava’s first wife; mother of Raavan and Kumbhakarna
Kanyakumari: Literally, the Virgin Goddess. It was believed that the Mother Goddess Herself temporarily resided in the bodies of carefully chosen young girls, who were then worshipped as living Goddesses.
Khara: A captain in the Lankan army; Samichi’s lover
Krakachabahu: The governor of Chilika
Kubaer: The chief-trader of Lanka
Kumbhakarna: Raavan’s brother; also a Naga
Kushadhwaj: King of Sankashya; younger brother of Janak
Lakshman: One of the twin sons of Dashrath; Ram’s halfbrother
Malayaputras: The tribe left behind by Lord Parshu Ram, the sixth Vishnu
Mandodari: Wife of Raavan
Mara: An independent assassin for hire
Mareech: Kaikesi’s brother; Raavan and Kumbhakarna’s uncle; one of Raavan’s closest aides
Nagas: Human beings born with deformities
Nandini: A good friend of Vishwamitra and Vashishtha from their days in the Gurukul. She was from the land of Branga.
Prithvi: A businessman in the village of Todee
Raavan: Son of Rishi Vishrava; brother of Kumbhakarna; half-brother of Vibhishan and Shurpanakha
Ram: Son of Emperor Dashrath and his eldest wife
Kaushalya; eldest of four brothers; later married to Sita
Samichi: Police and protocol chief of Mithila; Khara’s lover
Shatrughan: Twin brother of Lakshman; son of Dashrath and Sumitra; Ram’s half-brother
Shochikesh: The landlord of Todee village
Shurpanakha: Half-sister of Raavan
Sita: Daughter of King Janak and Queen Sunaina of Mithila; also the prime minister of Mithila; later married to Ram
Sukarman: A resident of Todee village; Shochikesh’s son
Sursa: An employee of the trader Naarad. She was passionately in love with Hanuman, despite his vow of celibacy.
Suryavanshis: The descendants of the Sun God. This dynasty of kings and queens was founded by Emperor Ikshvaku.
Vaanars: The Vaanars were the powerful dynasty that ruled the land of Kishkindha along the Tungabhadra River.
Vali: The king of Kishkindha
Vashishtha: Raj guru, the royal priest of Ayodhya; teacher of the four Ayodhya princes
Vayuputras: The tribe left behind by Lord Rudra, the previous Mahadev
Vedavati: A resident of Todee village; Prithvi’s wife
Vibhishan: Half-brother of Raavan
Vishrava: A revered rishi; the father of Raavan, Kumbhakarna, Vibhishan and Shurpanakha
Vishwamitra: Chief of the Malayaputras; also, temporary guru of Ram and Lakshman
