2007-10-30 02:47:29 · 12 answers · asked by lokesh k 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
You must have read in recent papers that there is place in Rajsthan)India) where people actually wroship Ravana at homes. They propose to dedicate a temple to him though the Hindu organisation VHP is opposing it.
There is also another news item this time from Raipur(Zarkhand,India) where one tailor also has an idol of Ravana installed inhis house and offes reguar worship. He has also named his shop as Lankesh(King of Lanka i.e. Ravana) Tailors. He also wishes to collect funds and dedicate a temple. His family does no t approve this but ignore it as his idiosyncracy.
There is a tribe in Madhya Pradesh(India) which claims decent from Ravana. The women in this tribe do not wear a bodice("choli")
All this goes to show that at least there are some people in India who honour him;In fact, the neo-Buddhist;s feel that the entire story of Ramayan is a concoction of Hindus to defame the Baudhhas.As Buddhism spread throughout Shri Lanka and Lanka would refused to play second fiddle to India the king of Lanka(Ravana)has been defamed inthis way as a demon etc.
And even Ramayans(Bakmini andTusidas) acknowledge Ravana was not only a great King but also a learned man.
His alternative name Dashanan(Ten Heads) is an oblique abuse for his pains to systmatise the text of the Rig Veda in chapters. The Vedas are revered as words of god and the temerity of somebody to characterise as unsystematic and dare to recast its format was considered as a sacrilege.The appelltion'dashanan' suggests that he considered himself too wise as if he had ten heads. And then mythology took it liberally and endowed him with ten faces and twenty arms.
However, it is admitted that he was an upper caste Brahmin and when Rama killed him he had committed a great sin(Brahmahaty) and had to perform detailed poojas to escape the punishment for it. Ravana's superior intellitence is also witnessed in Balmimi Ramayana where ,after felling him by his arrow Rama asked his brother Lakshman to go and sit at Ravana's feet and received knowledge from him. They say Ravana took t en days to die. When Lakshman hesitated Rama told him that once he killed him his enemty towards him came to an end.
Ravana was a cultured person. Even if he snatched away Seeta he never so much as toucher his while she was in his custody. He did try to persuade her but did not force himself upon her.He had also a reason to harm Rama whose brother had cut the nose and ears of his sister Shurpnakha whose fault was that she wanted to marry her and approached him with this proposal.This action has een sought to be justified by saying that she threatened to eat them alive if they did not accrde to her request. In an alternative scenario in folk songs in Rajstnan it is said that Shurpanakha's husband who was performing penance in the Dandkaryana was mistakenly killed by an arrow of Lakshman and she had threatened to harm him for it.
It is usual for the defeated enemy to be defamed. Hitler has been denounced but one British Histoian says that the only fault of Hitler was that he lost the war. The tales of massacres of Jews are increasingly being discounted. It would have been reasonable to erect a memorial for all the Jews said to have been massacred during the war by Hitler onthe German soil. But this has been vehemently opposed.And the only memorial is raised in America.Do you also know that suggestions have been made to Hitler by German scientist for the development of the atomic bomb but that when he learned about the destructive capacity he shivered and refused to entertain any such proposals. The atom bomb was developed in distant Amecia with the help of migrant German scientists.
2007-10-30 03:41:37 · answer #1 · answered by Prabhakar G 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Great King Ravana
2016-12-12 17:37:11 · answer #2 · answered by ashmore 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ravana was good guy. Very Religious & intelligent!!!!!!! But he lost his mind and made bad decision to abduct Sitaaji.
2007-10-30 02:59:44 · answer #3 · answered by xtremely xtra 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
what xtremely xtra said is right.. ravana was very intelligent.... he was a great researcher... he made research in three fields... they are 1.evolution of universe 2.time travel 3.path to heaven from earth... had his brain dint get spoiled, he would have succeded and now this world would be a different one... when Rama Killed him, he said that a nice man is no more in this world..
2007-10-30 03:35:40 · answer #4 · answered by rack2020 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lt's see--he sought to impose the rule of the rakshasa over people through conquest; he defied the Vedic gods; he abducted Sita. So tyranny, blasphemy, and kidnapping--a pretty bad guy...
2007-10-30 06:16:26 · answer #5 · answered by snowbaal 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What will you get by knowing Ravana or Rama are good or bad? Absolutely nothing.
If you can identify your neighbor living human is good or bad for you, it will offer some help to your life.
2007-10-30 02:54:38 · answer #6 · answered by chennaideva 2 · 0⤊ 5⤋
as per my knowledge RAVAN is very very very gud guy because he is very much inteligent,he had all divine n spiritual powers,dat much nobody else hv in hindu mythology.
morover bad is in evrybody so he had done dat rong wid sita jee.
me ,u n evrybody hv sm bad qualities,beauty is in beholder eye!
so think bout him widout dis sita jee scam,u defny get gud bout him,n yeah wat RAM had done wid sita jee after getting her back?---he left her.Means dey bot r separated after smtim daz sita jee get back to earth in depression.
2007-10-30 03:35:36 · answer #7 · answered by nincompoop 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I DONT KNOW WHTHERE HE WAS BAD OR GOOD BUT THE SISTER WHO GOT BROTHER LIKE RAVAN IS THE LUCKIEST ONE.
2015-07-24 22:14:48 · answer #8 · answered by Axay 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he is a good guy except the thing he had done by kidnapping seetha another mans wife.
2007-10-30 04:16:40 · answer #9 · answered by vivekanand005 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
He was the "Demon King!" Does that answer your question?
2007-10-30 05:18:03 · answer #10 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋