Kaikeyī
mythological figure · 1 work · 27 mentions · 73 anchored passages
daughter of Aśvapati · the queen · Bharata's mother · his mother · his wife · middle mother · our own mother · that king's daughter · that mother · the middle mother
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Daśaratha's queen who invokes a previously granted boon to have Rāma exiled and her son Bharata crowned instead.
The quarrel between Rāma and Rāma, the virtues of Daśaratha's son, the intended consecration of Rāma, and the wicked intent of Kaikeyī —
But seeing the preparations for his consecration, his wife Kaikeyī — the queen to whom a boon had previously been granted — asked him for this boon:
the remaining quarter he gave to Kaikeyī, for the purpose of obtaining sons.