Every year on Dusshera and Rakshabandhan a few people praise Ravana, for he never touched Sita and waited for her consent (which he never got cuz lord Ram popped an arrow in his naval) and say things like a brother should be like Ravana who fought for his sister with even Gods.
Let me break it down :
- In viavat puraan, Surpanakha was married to Dushtabuddhi, an Asur in the court of Ravana.
Ravana killed him and made her a widow.
In another version she secretly married, Vidhyutjihva, a Danav from hell.
Ravana killed him and made her a widow here too.
-Hence, Surpnakha always wanted to kill Ravana after this. When she met Ram & Laxman and Laxman chopped her nose, Ravana wasn’t the brother she went to, she went to Khar & Dushan. They first sent some demons thinking Ram to be an ordinary human. Its when they all got killed, Khar himself went with his entire army and got everyone killed except Akampan, who was left alive purposely.
Meanwhile, Surpnakha realised that it was Ram who killed Tadka (her grandmother), Khar & Dushan (her brothers) and Subahu (her uncle) and he was definitely someone who could kill Ravana too.
So she nicely went and told Ravana about Sita and how she would be a perfect wife for him, and as she plotted, he got killed.
What a PERFECT BROTHER-SISTER relationship !? Yay !?
Coming to respecting women :
In Uttarakhand, Ravana raped Apsara Rambha, the daughter-in-law of his own brother Kuber. Kuber’s son Nalkuber cursed Ravana that the next time he touches a woman without her consent, his head will explode.
In Gunabhadra’s uttara puraan, Ravana again sexually assaults Manivati. Manivati swears that she will take revenge, and guess what she was reborn as Sita.
Ravana ALSO tried to rape Vedavati, grand daughter of Brihaspati. Vedavati immolated herself in fire and promised that she will be born again to cause Ravana’s destruction. She again, is said to have reborn as Sita.
P.S : had he been born today, he could have started kidnapping children keeping them locked at his palace and people would have called it a Childcare Centre.
Hope next time before praising Ravana for his buddhimanta people revisit our Vedic puraan 🙏
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