Ravana

Ravana (pronounced: "RAH-vah-nah") was the main antagonist of Ramayana, one of the major Sanskrit epics of ancient India.

History
Ravana was born to Ravana and Kaikesi, his siblings were Kumbhakarna, Khara and Dushana and Surpanakha (born Meenakshi). He and Kumbhakarna were the the second reincarnations of Jaya and Vijaya, Vishnu's gate keeper. He killed Vidyutjihva, Surpanakha's greedy husband out of self-defense, causing his sister to search the world. After Surpanakha came back to him, Ravana found out that she was humilited by Vishnu's current incarnation, Rama, his brother Laxmana and his wife Sita. So he sent had a rakshasa named Maricha distract Rama and Laxmana disguised as golden deer while he kidnapped Sita himself disguised as a hermit. An old vulture named Jatayu tried to rescue her, but Ravana cut his wing off killing him.

Ravana took Sita to his city of Lanka. Soon after that Hanuman arrived and tried to save her, but Sita refused help unless it was from Rama. This made Hanuman mad and have a tantrum, the noise attracted Ravana who took the monkey demigod prisoner. Ravana tried to kill him by setting his tail on fire, but Hanuman managed to make his tail grow and escape, setting fire to the city of Lanka.

Aru Shah and the End of Time
Although not mentioned by name until the glossary, Ravana was mentioned by Aru Shah when she remembered that Valmiki wrote Ramayana.

Appearance
Ravana is depicted as having ten heads.

Trivia

 * Ravana is often said to be an example of a dark lord or evil overlord.
 * He is a powerful king of Lanka.
 * He has many henchman.