Dussehra 2025: According to religious texts, there was also a big brother of Ravana, named Maharavan. It was killed by Goddess Sita herself. This story is described in Anand Ramayana.
Koun tha maharavan: This time Dussehra festival is being celebrated on 2 October, Thursday. It is believed that Lord Shri Ram killed Ravana on this day. The 10 -headed Ravana is described in Valmiki Ramayana and Ramcharit Manas, which everyone knows. But Anand Ramayana describes the story of Maharavan with 1 thousand head. This Maharavan was killed by Goddess Sita himself. Learn more, which Maharavan, how did it happen…
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Who was Ravana’s elder brother?
According to Anand Ramayana, after killing Ravana in Lanka, Shriram Devi came to Ayodhya with Sita. Here sages and sages etc. praised Lord Shri Ram’s might very much, seeing this, Goddess Sita laughed. When Shri Ram asked the reason for this, Goddess Sita said that ‘Rishi Vishrava’s wife Kaikasi had two sons. The name of these two was Ravana, the elder of them is Sahasravadan Ravana, he has 1 thousand heads. The second Dashanan was Ravana, who lived in Lanka, which you have killed. A thousand headed Maharavan is more dominant and powerful. ‘ Shriram was surprised to hear this.
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Goddess Sita killed Maharavan
When Shri Ram came to know about Maharavan, he agreed to kill him and reached to fight with him. There was a fierce battle between Maharavan and Shri Ram. Maharavan was very powerful, while fighting with him, Shri Ram fainted. When Goddess Sita saw that there was a crisis in Shri Ram’s life, she took a terrible form and cut off all the heads of Maharavan and killed her. On coming to his senses, Lord Shri Ram praised Goddess Sita with a thousand names.
Unique stories in Anand Ramayana
Many texts related to Lord Shri Ram have been written in Hinduism, among them Valmiki Ramayana and Ramcharit Manas are considered to be the best. Apart from Hindi, Ramayana has been composed by scholars in many other languages. Anand Ramayana is also one of these. It was composed in the 15th century, but there is no information about its author. Many amazing stories are described in this Ramayana.
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