Mārīca
mythological figure · 1 work · 9 mentions · 23 anchored passages
shape-shifting rākṣasa · that sorcerer · the Rākṣasa named Mārīca · the golden deer · the rākṣasa Mārīca
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
A rākṣasa sorcerer who warns Rāvaṇa against attacking Rāma but ultimately helps him abduct Sītā by decoying Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa.
Then Rāvaṇa, hearing of the slaughter of his kinsmen and overcome with fury, sought as his ally the Rākṣasa named Mārīca.
That sorcerer, having lured both princes far away, abducted the wife of Rāma, slaying the vulture Jaṭāyus.
Mārīca repeatedly warned Rāvaṇa: