Adbhuta Ramayana: Sita becomes Kali against the thousand-headed Ravana

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In this Ramayana the husband faints and the wife wins the last war.

The Adbhuta Ramayana (1,355 verses, 27 sargas) claims to be Valmiki's secret teaching. In chapter 17 Sita reveals a thousand-headed Ravana, elder brother of the ten-headed one, in Puskara Dvipa. Rama falls unconscious, and Sita takes the terrible Kali form to destroy the demon and his army. Rama praises her with 1,008 names, which are mostly Shakta. Sita is also called Ravana's daughter, abandoned by Mandodari and found by Janaka.

Who: Sita, Rama, Kali, Sahasramukha Ravana, Valmiki, Bharadvaja

Bound to

Bilanka Ramayana: Sahasrasira Ravana of Bilanka same-story-other-version

Satakantaravana: the hundred-headed Ravana that Sita defeats same-story-other-version

Sita as Ravana's daughter located-at

Places: Puskara Dvipa (mythic)

Where this comes from

purana · Hindupedia: Adbhuta Ramayana ch. 17

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