Rawan

Perhaps this time the Taliban will come again, Bakht Rawan, a local trader, told me.

The Scorpion’s Tail Zahid Hussain 2010

Here are 2 Grade 7 blogs of distinction showing how they maintained their process journal as a blog and posted material to the blog for assessment - Rawan and Dana both include Toondoo images.

Sharing my Classroom Part 2: Grade 7 Julie Lindsay 2008

Here are 2 Grade 7 blogs of distinction showing how they maintained their process journal as a blog and posted material to the blog for assessment - Rawan and Dana both include Toondoo images.

Archive 2008-06-01 Julie Lindsay 2008

This may be compared with the name given to the Gonds of the Central Provinces of Rawanbansi, or descendants of Rawan, the idea being that their ancestors were the subjects of Rawan, the demon king of Ceylon, who was conquered by Rama.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

The men sometimes paint their own pictures, and in Bombay they have a caste rule that every Chitrakathi must have in his house a complete set of sacred pictures; this usually includes forty representations of Rama's life, thirty-five of that of the sons of Arjun, forty of the Pandavas, forty of Sita and Rawan, and forty of Harishchandra.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

If this is the correct derivation it may be compared with the name of Rawanvansi or Children of Rawan, the opponent of Rama, which is applied to the Gonds of the Central Provinces.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

And they explain that when Hanuman in the shape of a giant monkey came to the assistance of Rama, their king Rawan tried to destroy Hanuman by taking all the loin-cloths of his subjects and tying them soaked in oil to the monkey's tail with a view to setting them on fire and burning him to death.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

Some of them say, like the Gonds, that they are descended from the subjects of Rawan, the demon king of Ceylon; this ancestry having no doubt in the first instance been imputed to them by the Hindus.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

Killing of Rawan, the demon king of Ceylon, from whom the

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

The device was unsuccessful and Hanuman escaped, but since then the subjects of Rawan and their descendants have never had a sufficient allowance of cloth to cover them properly.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894