Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c4.2471

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c4.2471

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c4.2471

4) *Rāvaṇa is given a boon.* It was Brahmā who made Rāvaṇa an ever-powerful hero. Penance was done by Rāvaṇa in the vicinity of the Himālayas and Brahmā appeared before him and granted him the boon that no living creature except man, would kill him. (Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, Bāla Kāṇḍa, Sarga 16).

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Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa — Vālmīki, Sanskrit