RAVANA

Specialty Definition: RAVANA

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Literature	Ravana according to Indian mythology, was fastened down between heaven and earth for 10,000 years by Siva's leg, for attempting to move the hill of heaven to Ceylon. He is described as a demon giant with ten faces. (Hindu mythology.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Ravana

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

King Ravana, in Hindu mythology of the Rakshas of Lanka (cur: Sri Lanka) was the villain of the epic Ramayana.

Ravana is depicted in art with up to ten heads. The demon gained enormous powers when he prayed to Brahma, who granted him a boon. Ravana wished that his life be protected from Devas (divinities), Asuras (enemies of the Devas), Rakshasas (demons), Gandharvas (angels), Yakshas (demigods), or other celestial or magical being. In his arrogance, Ravana forgot to ask for protection from man.

To kill the evil Ravana, Vishnu incarnated as Rama. Ravana captured Sita, Rama's wife. In order to retrieve Sita, Rama leads an army of both humans and animals to destroy Ravana. The occasion of Ravana's death is celebrated as Dusshera (also spelled Dussera). On this day, effigies of Ravana are publicly burnt.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ravana."

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Modern Usage: RAVANA

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Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Mahi Ravana (1923)

Mayil Ravana (1918)

Ravana Rajya (1987)

Kaliyuga Ravana Surudu (1980)

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Usage Frequency: RAVANA

"RAVANA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "RAVANA" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	4	175,879

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RAVANA

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
ravana	9
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Anagrams: RAVANA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-n-r-v"
	-1 letter: navar, varna.
	-2 letters: vara.
	-3 letters: ana, ava, ran, van, var.
	-4 letters: aa, an, ar, na.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-n-r-v"
	+1 letter: caravan.
	+2 letters: caravans, paravane.
	+3 letters: caravaned, caravaner, gravamina, paravanes, salvarsan.
	+4 letters: caravaners, caravaning, caravanned, caravanner, cavalryman, salvarsans.
	+5 letters: aggravating, aggravation, caravanners, caravanning, caravansary, extravagant, variational.
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