Who is more evil, Ravana, Hiranyakashipu, or Kamsa?

Tywin Lannister

Every king is more-or-less a conqueror. Either he wages war against his neighbouring kingdoms or defends his piece of land against foreign invasions.

Now, who is evil & who is good depends upon perspective & is decided by the outcome of these wars or more precisely, whose media machine works better.

Ravana had personal claims to be settled against Rama which led to the abduction of Sita & the war. But, note, Ravana inflicted no cruelty on Sita when she was captured. Also, he became Rama's priest during the Durga puja. He was a man of great knowledge & wisdom. Almost none of his actions were that evil.

Hiranyakashpu was basically a non-Aryan king who was subdued & killed by the Aryan invasion. He & his brother were so powerful that Lord Vishnu had to take two incarnations to kill them. Thus Hiranyakashpu was a king wwho resisted the invading opposition. His cruelties were a result of the war.

Now, coming to Kangsha, he was no doubt a powerful ruler. But these were his atrocities :

• He was power-greedy, almost a dictator to the point that he destroyed the age-old Yadava culture of democracy (yes, many clans preferred “ganatantra” opposed to “rajtantra”)
• He imprisoned his father Ugrasena & subdued others who protested.
• He brought upon relentless oppression on his subjects - increasing taxes, sentencing those to death who protested, arson & murder.
• He was so frightened at the so-called prophecy that his own nephew will kill him, that he imprisoned his own sister & brother-in-law & killed their children one by one. In fact, this infanticide was the main reason people under his rule revolted & nobody stood by him when Krishna & Balaram killed him in open court.
• He left no stone unturned to find out the young krishna, by sending out assassins (Bakasura, kalianag, etc.) to search & kill the young child.
  

Hence, in my opinion, Kangsha is the most evil - the evil incarnate !!!

Meself

Tywin Lannister 22-4-2018 11:14 AM
What makes you think Ravana was a "serial rapist" ?

Raavan was a serial rapist. Firstly Rambha, then Vedvati (yes she was raped unlike the toned down versions shown in TV series), he then plundered the Dakishnapath mostly for women. Had sex slaves. Raavan might have started out as a man who wanted to attain knowledge at the hands of Mahadev but ended up being a henious man.

themaskeditor

There is no good evil and bad evil.

In my opinion every person has Good and bad qualities.

There has to be badness to harness goodness. It is like negative and positive energy.

krishnat

All are equally evil.I believe their destiny was to be evil under larger scheme of things by Creator.All these were finally destroyed by God himself just to teach world about evil.

theReddy

Meself 18-4-2018 08:39 PM
Hiranayakashayapa was motivated by greed. He wanted to be the wealthiest and in turn the most powe ...

very good explanation. But you should also have explained their good qualities.

Meself

Raavan definitely. Let's not forget that man was a plunderer, a usurper and worst of all a serial rapist. Hiranayakashayapa and Kansa were motivated by their greed and ambition .Raavan on the hand was a through and through evil.

Arkitekt

Ravana was motivated by revenge,
Hiranyakashyapu was blinded by power,
Kansa imprisoned his family for power.
The first two were blinded as a result of power, but Kansa started evil adn progressed from there. He was hungry for power in the first place. Therefore, I agree, Kansa was the most evil one.

soothsayer

They are all evil. Kansa a child killer, Ravana with a roving eye and hiranyakakasapu who called himself god. in my view Hiranya was the worst as he inflicted cruelties on all but the maximum on his own son

abcl.corp

Hiranyakashyupu

somyajeet

Kangsha was most the evil.

Lalit725

Kansa was the most evil as he not hesitated to kill even newborn babies.

Tywin Lannister

Arkitekt 17-4-2018 04:29 PM
Ravana was motivated by revenge,
Hiranyakashyapu was blinded by power,
Kansa imprisoned his family f ...

Absolutely !!! Infanticide is a crime which was never supported in history.

That's why I like(d) Ned Stark, before my idiot of a grandson chopped his head off !!!

Tywin Lannister

Meself 18-4-2018 12:30 AM
Raavan definitely. Let's not forget that man was a plunderer, a usurper and worst of all a serial ra ...

What makes you think that? Please support your claim.

Meself

Tywin Lannister 18-4-2018 02:57 PM
What makes you think that? Please support your claim.

Hiranayakashayapa was motivated by greed. He wanted to be the wealthiest and in turn the most powerful ruler of the cosmos. Its not that in his kingdom people were killed every now and then. He had an orderly administration and militia. He was a worshipper of Shiva and promoted his teachings (but because Shiva and Narayana respect each other and Hiranayakashayapa was insulting Vishnu, Shiva never truly blessed him). His son Prahlad decided to defy him through his devotion and hence his wrath fell on him. He wasn't a through and through evil as TV series portray him to be.




Next up Kansa. Again he is highly blackened in the adaptations of Geet Govind that highlight the lives of a young Krishna. Now even he had a well formed administration too. He was fuelled by his ambition, ambition that blinded him into imprisoning the sister he was devoted to. Evil needs to be defined both in conduct and kinship when we are talking about kings. So yes Hiranayakashayapa and Kansa were evil in their conducts but not in kinship. Also Raavan surpasses them both.


He was a tyrant ruler and a serial rapist. He violated Vedvati, Rambha (who was his distant daughter-in-law BTW). He captured countless women. He couldn't violate Sita because Rambha had cursed him that if tries to violate the modesty of another woman he will burst into flames and die. He was also anbad father. When Meghnad had protested against Sita's kidnapping he manipulated him as well to fight for his evil cause. And there are countless more incidents. So yes, Raavan truly was the worst of these all and the most evil.