Ravana The Great: King of Lanka

" Ravana and his tribe of Rahshas belonged to the human race and in all probability to the Marava community of the present day thus forming a section of the Dravdians ; and Ravana was the highest and the noblest specimen of humanity of his time. [...] Kuvera was in charge of the North Yama of the South Varuna of the West Indra of the Easf Vayu of the NortWest Agni of the South-East Chandra of the North-East and Surva of the South-West. [...] The members of the family of the bride desire that the bridegroom should be equal in birth and status to the brick ; the father of the bride cares for intellectual breadth and moral height in the young man ; her mother hankers after riches and broad acres ; and the bride herself wishes that her sweetheart should be young and handsome. [...] The wily Aryan prince dragged into the conflict by the praises and prayers of the ambitious rishis in the first instance sought the aid of the exiles the wife-lorn Sugriva and his warrior-ichief Hanuman described in the epic as beings endowed in contempt with caudal appendages to make a quest of the ravished Sita. [...] But for the Dravidian Hanuman who played the incendiary and the medicine man and for the treacherous Vibishanan who ran away from his brother informed Rama of the vulnerable points of his foe and of the city of Lanka victory and wife-recovery would have38 RAVANA THE GREAT been out of the question.