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Trishira sits in lalitasana on a throne facing a fire altar in which a severed head is burning - Trichinopoly style painting | |
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Trishira (Sanskrit: त्रिशिर, romanized: Triśira, lit. 'the three-headed one') is a rakshasa featured in the Ramayana. He is one of the sons of Ravana and Dhanyamalini and his brothers are Atikaya, Narantaka and Devantaka.[1]
The Ramayana states that Trishira engaged Rama in a fight and hit him with a number of arrows. At this,Rama told him that his arrows were like flowers being showered on his body. Thereafter, a duel ensued, in which Rama killed Trishira.[2]