Sumali

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Sumali (Malay: Sumaliwan, Tamil: Chumali, Thai:ท้าวสหมลิวัน) is the maternal grandfather of Ravana, the principal antagonist of the Ramayana.

He, his elder brother Malyavan and younger brother Mali were the sons of the daitya Sukesh.^{[citation needed]} Sumali along with his two brothers made a tapasya to Brahma and asked that their brotherly love would be unbreakable and no one would be able to defeat them. Consequently they conquered every god and Daitya. With these powers they asked Vishvakarma to make a city for them. Thus they received Lanka where they lived in luxury. Later they were defeated by the gods and Mali was killed by Vishnu.

Sumali's wife was Ketumati with which he had ten sons - Prahastra, Akampana, Vikata, Kalikamuka, Dumraksha, Dandha, Suparshva, Sanhadi, Barkarna and four daughters - Raka, Pushpotyata, Kaikasi, and Kumbhinasi. Thataka, a Yaksha princess, is also named as his wife. She bore Sumali two sons, Subahu and Maricha, and a daughter, Kaikesi. Kaikesi was married to sage Vishrava and their son Ravana reconquered Lanka.Other sons of Kaikesi were-Kumbhakarna and Vibhishana.She has a daughter named Shurpanakha.

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Ikshvaku clan	Dasharatha Kausalya Sumitra Kaikeyi Rama Bharata Lakshmana Shatrughna Sita Urmila Mandavi Shrutakirti Lava Kusha

Vanara	Hanuman Kesari Anjana Sugriva Vali Tara Rumā Angada Makardhwaja

Rakshasa	Ravana Vibhishana Kumbhakarna Indrajit Akshayakumara Atikaya Devantaka Kabandha Khara Mandodari Maricha Mayasura Narantaka Prahasta Subahu Sulochana Sumali Surpanakha Tataka Trishira Viradha

Sages	Agastya Ahalya Arundhati Bharadwaja Kambhoja Parashurama Vasistha Vishvamitra Rishyasringa

Other characters	Jambavan Janaka Jatayu Manthara Maya Sita Sampati Shabari Shravan Vedavati

Places	Ayodhya Mithila Dandakaranya Kishkindha Lanka

Other	Lakshman Rekha List of adaptations

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