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Overview

In Book VI, Trisiras addresses Ravana as his father and urges him to stop grieving after Kumbhakarna’s death. He praises the king’s surviving weapons and strength, then offers to fight Rama himself. His assurances help renew Ravana’s confidence before the princes leave the city.

Following Narantaka’s death, Trisiras joins Devantaka and Mahodara against Angada and strikes the vanara’s forehead with three arrows. He shoots apart the mountain peak Nila throws and wounds Nila with further arrows. When he attacks Hanuman, his spear is caught and broken, but his sword wounds the vanara’s chest. Hanuman knocks him down and uses the fallen sword to sever his crowned heads. Griffith explicitly calls him three-faced and triple-necked in this episode; this is the Book VI prince, not an automatic identification of every epic figure sharing the name.

Three headsThree necksArcherySpear and swordRavana’s son
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Origins & earliest records

South Asian epic religious narrative

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Records & interpretation

Directly read historical English epic witness; translator’s abridgements explicitly identified where used.

Selected bibliography

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    The Ramayan of Valmiki

    Ralph T. H. Griffith (translator) · 1870–1874

    VI.69–70; title-page edition range, not epic composition date.

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Primary records and illustrations

Direct primary record

The Ramayan of Valmiki, Griffith translation

Hosted complete edition, title-page range 1870–1874. VI.69–70

Complete relevant passage read in downloaded Gutenberg HTML. Translator’s prose abridgement distinguished from translated verse. Public-domain historical translation; no image claimed.

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  1. Historical primary epic translationGriffith, Ramayan — VI.69–70Research access: 2026-10-05

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