Mandodari (A Mythological Novel on the Life of Mandodari, Wife of Ravana)
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ISBN | 9789350502549 |
Pages | 199 |
Language: | English |
Product Code: | 1 |
Size(in cm): | 9.0 inch X 6.0 inch cm |
Weight(in grams): | 305(approx) |
Description:
I always had a plan to write a novel on Ravana's wife Mandodari. The great poet Valmiki in his Uttarakand chapter beautifully narrated Mandodari's mental agony, pain, sufferings and happiness of being Ravana's wife and daughter-in-law of the Rakshas dynasty. In fact, Uttarakand Chapter is full of Ravana's glory, victory, valour, influence, erudition, proficiency, love, responsibility, planning, oppression, cruelty, immoral conduct, etc. Mandodari's character is a manifestation of both joy and distress.
While writing the novel I placed myself into Mandodari's character and tried to understand her feelings and emotions as deep as I could. I analysed each and every other character of the Rakshasa dynasty. Although Mandodari loved and respected her husband much, yet she was very much against her husband's misdeeds. She couldn't accept Ravana's unsocial activities which he considered as an observable conduct of Rakshasa religion and that is to acquire things that he had a likeness for with force and violence if the necessity arises.
Mandodari supported Bibhishana. But she never appreciated the fact that Bibhisana surrendered himself to Ram even though Bibhishana was badly insulted by his brother Ravana. She felt that since Bibhishana was a pious person, he could have kept himself aloof from the war rather than going against the nation. According to her, he should have been busy performing some religious rituals, meditation or penance or reading scriptures.
Many people think that the Rakshasa dynasty originated from the great sage Vishrava. But before that clan arose, Rakshasas ruled in Lanka. It was lord Vishnu who threw them away from Lanka to Roshatal for their unsocial and oppressive deeds. For better understanding of what I have just mentioned, a chronology of the Rakshasa dynasty is given below.
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