A maid of कैकेयी the wife of दशरथ . This hunchbacked woman was born of the species of a गन्धर्वी named दुन्दुभी . [mh-3-276-10 ] Mahābhārata • Vana parva . When everything was made ready to crown श्री राम as the heir-apparent of अयोध्या , it was मन्थरा who persuaded कैकेयी to go to दशरथ and ask him to send श्री राम to the forests. Had not the cruel tongue of मन्थरा played like that, the history of the solar dynasty itself would have been different. (See under Kaikeyī)

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Daughter of विरोचन . (Sarga 25, Bālakāṇḍa, Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa) . Indra killed this मन्थरा .