Lankini: the city's guard who knows the end

Classical

The city of Lanka herself told Hanuman it would fall.

At nightfall Hanuman enters Lanka and Lankini, the shape-shifting demoness guard, blocks him. He knocks her down with one fist; humbled she says she is the city itself and recalls Brahma's boon: when a vanara overpowers her, fear will fall on the rakshasas. She says that time has come and Ravana will perish because of Sita, so Hanuman should enter.