Kumbhakarna
Basic account
Ravana's giant brother who slept six months and woke to war.
Account
Kumbhakarna, brother of Ravana, sleeps six months at a time. He meant to ask for the seat of Indra and asked for sleep instead, and the mistake defines him.
Motifs
- Sleeping under the land
- The gift that undoes
- The devout enemy
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What is disputed
Whether Saraswati's intervention is original or a later explanation for an odd detail is unclear, and it sits in the portion of the text most suspected of being added.
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Sources
- Valmiki, Ramayana: Yuddha Kanda (the waking and the battle)
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