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RAVANA'S IN LAWS WERE MEXICAN?

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Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar told an interesting fact yesterday about Mandodari, who was Ravana's wife and queen of Sri Lanka.  On Dussehra eve, in satsang, Gurudev shared a very fascinating fact about Ravana's wife Mandodari that really made me wonder that even without wireless internet & mobile phone technology, people from different far away continents were so deeply connected. Mandodari was the queen consort of King Ravana in Sri Lanka. In North India, people celebrate Dussehra by burning huge effigies of King Ravana and his brothers Kumbhkaran and Vibhishana as a celebration of victory over evil. Dussehra is the day when Lord Rama won the battle by killing evil Ravana who had abducted his wife Sita. Coming back to Mandodari, Ravana's wife. Not much is written in Ramayana about her except for the time when she protected Sita from Ravana's wrath when the latter refused to marry Ravana after being abducted. Mandodari was the daughter of a king ...