<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Shurpanakha </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> The humiliation of Shurpanakha by Warwick Goble, 1913 </Td> </Tr> <P> Shurpanakha (Sanskrit: शूर्पणखा, IAST: śūrpaṇakhā, lit . she whose fingernails are like winnowing fans) is a character in Valmiki's epic, the Ramayana, and is the sister of the main antagonist, Ravana, King of Lanka . She is known as Soorpanagai in Tamil, Sarpakanaka in Indonesian, Surpanakhar in Khmer, Surapandaki in Malay, and Sammanakkha in Thai . </P> <P> Valmiki describes Shurpanakha by the time of the Ramayana's events as generally ugly (ghora mukhi): </P>

From which body part surpanakha derived their name