Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Ravan’s great-grandfather was Brahma… His grandfather was Rishi Pulasthi …and his father was Rishi Vishrava.

Rishi Pulasthi (Pulastyas), is one of six son’s of Brahma. Rishi Pulasthi's wife Nikasha, daughter of the Rakshasa Sumali, had a son called Vishravas (Veshwashrawa), who became a great Brahman Rishi. And from Rishi Vishravas, with his second wife Kaikasi, a Rakshasa princess,  gave birth to Ravana.

Pulasthi is said to be the progenitor, not only of Ravana but the race of the Yaksha’s (Yucca/Yakka – king Kubera (kuvera of Yaksha’s – the half-brother of Ravana), and the race of the Rakshasas, which Ravana ruled this kingdom in southern & north east India and the south Asian  islands, from his ruling place in Sri Lanka.


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