Ravan (disambiguation)

Ravan could refer to:

People

• Ravana (alternatively spelled Ravan), the villain in the ancient Hindu epic Ramayana
  • Satasira Ravan of the Ramayana is also one of the four Ravanas (the others being Lakshesira Ravana, Ahibratekasira Ravana, Sahasrasira Ravana)
• Satamukha Ravana of the Telugu Satamukha Ramayana is another form of Ravana that Sita had destroyed, after Rama had slayed the first Ravana form
• Ravana Bhatta, a scholar to whom several Baith scriptures pertaining to the Rig Veda, Taittiriya Samhita, and Sama Veda^[1]
• Ravana Bhatta, a Sanskrit scholar of Karnataka whom Sayana Madhavacarya the Sanskrit scholar praises (along with other scholarly contemporaries)
• Ravana Nayaka, a Brahmin who was a devout Shaiva and the donee of the grant by King Udayaditya (during Devendravarman's rule) in 1081 C.E.^[2]
• Ravana, a commentator (along with Bhaskara Bhatta, Vidyaranya and Hemadri) on the Shaiva scripture Rudrapurascharana^[3]
• Ravana, composer of the Shavite scripture, Shiva Tandava Stotram
• Ravana (brother or Bavana), a sculptor from the Gaurisa Dasa ("Durga's Servant") community of Balligavi (Karnataka) at Kodiya-matha, of which the acharyas of the were the hosting religious teachers. It is told that he (with his brother) set up an image of the god Kusuvesvara and presented that to Gautama-deva the head of the matha, attached to the god Kedaresvara.
• Ravana, writer of the scripture Mahabhasya, which is also known as Ravanabhasya, and also the writer of the Katandi^[4] (commentary on the Vaisesika Sutra)
• Ravana, composer of the 16th century text, Arka Prakasa, which is a dialogue between the rakshasa king of Lanka and his wife Mandodhari about which herbs and chemicals can be used in a mixture to cure illnesses, such as syphilis^[5]
• Ravana, composer of the 16th century scripture, Nadi Pariksa and Nadi Vijnana
• Ravana, the composer of the Ravanabhet,^[6] a Vedic text on phonetics
• Ravana, the composer of the Ravaniya,^[7] also known as Ravanabaith,^[8] text on phonetics of the Telugu language
• Ravanacharya, scholar who wrote the Padaratna, a commentary on the Rig Veda^[9]
• Ravanaradhya, scholar who wrote the Sivajndnadipa, a scripture on the Shuddha-marga,^[10]
• Ravanayana, the term to denote a son of Ravani (the name for King Ravana of Lanka in the 7th century C.E. Kasikavritti^[11] by Kashmiri grammarians Vamana and Jayaditta)
• Ravana Rao, a person in Teulgu folklore (based on Ravana of Lanka) who gets into a conflict with Rama Raju (based on Rama of Ayodhya), and this story is based on the Ramayana^[12]
• Ravana Lankesvara, to whom the Prakrta-Kamadhenu grammatical text on Prakrit is attributed^[13]
• Ravana Vedabhasyakara, a scholar^[14]
• Ravan, King of Kashmir and patron of the Gonanda Dynasty, devout Shaiva who set up a Shivalinga at Vatesvara to which he dedicated his whole kingdom and worshiped.^[15]
• Ravandev, the title taken by Harishchandra Meghnad Bhatt of the Gujarati Brahmin community^[16]
• Ravanji, a descendant of Asuji the founder of Nagarparkar,^[17] who was in turn a descendant of Raja Bhoja (eighth in descent from Chakravarti Vikraditya of Malwa) of Dhar, that conquered Vijapur
• Rawan Dev, the son of Uday Dev, was the last Hindu ruler of Kashmir, that was killed by his administrator Shahmir Kabuli and Rawan's wife was forcibly taken by Shahmir^[18]
• Rawan Dev, a Shaiva Kulinda (Kuninda) ruler of Uttarakhand

Lineages

• Ravan, a surname amongst the Sachora Brahmins of Gujarat,^[19] a caste that claims to descend from Ravana
• Ravan, a gotra associated with the Rishi Kaumarayana, which is a sub-section of the Vasistha gotra^[20]
• Ravani, lineage of Upadhyaya Yasastrata II, who was of the Gautama gotra and was a son of Acharya Vasudatta, and described as "born of Ravani" ^[21]

Texts

• Ravana Digvijaya, a Kannada folk drama relating to the Ramayana, which was composed by Brahmin scholar Gersoppa Shantappayya
• Ravana Vadha, also known as Bhattikavya, a 6th century C.E. text written by Bhatt
• Ravanmandodari Samvad (1509 C.E.) by Gujarati writer Sridhar, is a dialogue between Mandodari and her husband King Ravana, wherein she entreats Ravana to hand over Sita to Rama and to make peace with Rama,^[22] and Ravana praises Rama and says that he wants to die at the hands of Rama, as in the 16th century texts Ranajanja by Vajiyo and Ranayagna by Premanand portray Ravana as recognizing that Rama is an incarnation of God and that he wants to die by Rama's hands
• Ravana Dammiyamu, a story about Ravana (of Ramayana) and a local land-lord whom gets into a conflict with Ravana^[23]

Characters

• Ravan (comics), a DC Comics villain
• Ravan (unicorn) from The Ancestral Trail

Other

• Ravān - in Persian means soul (from ancient Avestan "urvan"),^[24] and because of the spiritual significance, some Persians have historically used it as a title, such as Sassanid King Khosrow-Parviz, who took the title "Anush-rāvan" (the immortal soul), and priests that were spiritual-healers were known Ravān-pezeshk^[25]
• Ravan, Iran (disambiguation), places in Iran
• Ravan (river), a 76-km Russian river
• Ravan, Brod-Posavina County, a village in Brod-Posavina County, Croatia
• Ravan (rabbi), the 10th century talmudist Eliezer ben Nathan
• Ravanan (film), a 2006 Malayalam film starring Kalabhavan Mani
• Two Indian films simultaneously directed and produced by Mani Ratnam:
  • Raavan, the Hindi version starring Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai
  • Raavanan, the Tamil version starring Vikram and Aishwarya Rai

See also

• Ravenna (disambiguation)

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