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#REDIRECT [[List of characters in Ramayana#Sumali]]
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'''Sumali''' ([[Malay language|Malay]]: Sumaliwan, [[Tamil language|Tamil]]: Chumali, [[Thai language|Thai]]:ท้าวสหมลิวัน) is the maternal grandfather of [[Ravana]], the principal antagonist of the [[Ramayana]]. He was an Asura King.

He, his elder brother [[Malyavan]] and younger brother [[Mali (Hinduism)|Mali]] were the sons of the [[daitya]] [[Sukesh]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2010}}
Sumali along with his two brothers made a [[tapasya]] to [[Brahma]] and asked that their brotherly love would be unbreakable and no one would be able to defeat them. Consequently they conquered every god and Daitya. With these powers they asked [[Vishvakarma]] to make a city for them. Thus they received Lanka where they lived in luxury. Later they were defeated by the gods and Mali was killed by [[Vishnu]].

Sumali's wife was Ketumati with which he had ten sons - Prahastra, Akampana, Vikata, Kalikamuka, Dumraksha, Dandha, Suparshva, Sanhadi, Barkarna and four daughters - Raka, Pushpotyata, Kaikasi, and Kumbhinasi. [[Thataka]], a [[Yaksha]] princess, is also named as his wife. She bore Sumali two sons, [[Subahu]] and [[Maricha]], and a daughter, [[Kaikesi]]. Kaikesi was married to sage [[Vishrava]] and their son [[Ravana]] reconquered Lanka.Other sons of Kaikesi were-[[Kumbhakarna]] and [[Vibhishana]].She has a daughter named [[Shurpanakha]].

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