Surpanakha

Shurpanakha
The humiliation of Shurpanakha by Warwick Goble, 1913

Shurpanakha (IAST: Śūrpaṇakhā; lit. "sharp, long nails") or Surpanakha 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.

Valmiki describes Shurpanakha by the time of the Ramayana's events as generally ugly (gora mukhi):

The youngest child of Rishi Vishrava and his second wife, Kaikesi, Shurpanakha was given the name of Minakshi "Diksha" at birth. As beautiful as her mother Kaikesi and her grandmother Ketumati had been before her, Shurpanakha grew up and secretly married the Danavas prince of Kalkeya Danava clan, Vidyutjihva.Ravana got furious at Shurpanakha for marrying a Danava the affirmed enemies of Rakshasas and was about to punish her but Mandodari convinced him to respect the wish of his sister,thus Ravana accepted Shupanakha, her husband and danavas as relatives officially.At the time of conquering Rasatala (the underworld), her brother, Ravana decided to visit her newly married sister,where he confronts Vidyutjihva's true motives to marry Shurpanakha to kill Ravana,in Shurpanakha's absence Vidyutjihva attacked Ravana in defence he killed his brother-in-law. This earned Ravana his hurt and miserable sister's great displeasure, and the widowed Shurpanakha then split her time between Lanka and the woods of Southern India, sometimes, living with her forest-dwelling Asura relatives, Khara and Dushana, on Ravana's orders