Trijata was an aged woman demon/rākṣasī mentioned in the 27th Sarga of Sundara Kanda. She makes a brief appearance in Ramayana.
She was introduced as woken up from her deep sleep, at the time when the woman demons that were keeping guard of Sita were trying to convince Sita, by hook or crook, to accept Ravana as her husband.
She wakes up and warns other woman demons to keep away from Sita, as she had bad dream, which foretold great misfortune to demons in Lanka. That dream is a premonition to the demons and it contained 2 parts.
The following are the contents of her dream.
Part-I - Good omens to Shri Rama and Sita
- Shri Rama and Lakshmana stood in a celestial chariot made of ivory, drawn by a hundred swans traversing the ethereal regions
- Sita was wearing the purest white, standing on a snow-white mountain surrounded by the sea and she was re-united with Rama, as the light with the sun.
- Shri Rama and Lakshmana, seated on a mighty elephant possessing four tusks, resembling a hill, approached Janaki arrayed in dazzling robes and decked with garlands. Upon this, she mounted on the shoulders of an elephant led by her lord, appearing in the sky near the summit of that mountain!
- Thereafter, Sita rose into the air from her husband’s embrace and I beheld her wiping the sun and moon with her hand.
- Then that foremost among elephants with those two princes and the large-eyed Sita stood over Lanka.
- Shri Rama accompanied by Lakshmana, was in a chariot drawn by eight white bullocks and and Sita ascending a celestial flowery car, bright as the sun, driving towards the northern regions.
Part -II - Bad omens to Ravana and Lanka
- Ravana was lying on the earth coveredin oil, shaven, attired in red, garlanded with oleander flowers, intoxicated and still drinking.
- Ravana was falling from the flowery chariot, Pushpaka, on to the earth, shorn, wearing a black cloth, dragged hither and thither by a woman.
- Ravana was seated in a chariot drawn by asses, robed in red, with his body stained likewise, quaffing sesamum oil, laughing and dancing, his mind confused, his senses clouded, speeding towards the south.
- Ravana, stricken with fear, fall headlong on the earth, thereafter leaping up suddenly, terrified, bemused with liquor, staggering about naked like a madman, incapable of speech yet babbling continuously, stinking and foul, resembling hell itself.
- Then, proceeding towards the south, he entered a lake where even the mud had dried up and a dark woman clad in red, besmeared with mud, placed a rope round the neck of Ravana dragging him to the region of death.
- Kumbhakarna and all the sons of Ravana, their heads shaven, besmeared with oil.
- Ravana riding a boar, Indrajita a torpoise and Kumbhakarna a camel set out in Southern direction;
- Only Vibishana approached the sky, under a white canopy, accompanied by four ministers.
- The enchanting city of Lanka, filled with elephants, chariots and horses, her gateways and arches shattered, falling into the sea.
- Lanka protected by Ravana was to be burnt by a quick Vanara, who is a messenger of Rama."
- And, in Lanka, crimson with flames, the female titans were laughing and creating a terrible clamour, quaffing oil.
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Interestingly, Trijata was guarding Sita, alongwith other woman demons, for the past 10 months, but she never reported occurring of such dreams to other woman demons.
She reported happening of such a dream on the night Shri Hanuman entered Lanka.
Strange.
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We have to remember that Shri Hanuman defeated the Lankhini, the guarding energy of Lanka, while entering Lanka. Lankhini says as follows:
इदम् तु तथ्यम् शृणु वै ब्रुवन्त्य मे हरीश्वर || ५-३-४६
स्वयम्भुवा पुरा दत्तम् वरदानम् यथा मम |"O lord of Vanaras! In earlier times I had been given a boon by Lord Brahma. Hear from me about this matter."
यदा त्वाम् वानरः कश्चिद्विक्रमाद्वशमानयेत् || ५-३-४७
तदा त्वया हि विज्ञेयम् रक्षसाम् भयामागतम् |"Let this be known by you - whenever a Vanara conquers you with his might, then a fear will come for Rakshasas."
सीतानिमित्तंम् राज्ञस्तु रावणस्य दुरात्मनः || ५-३-४९
विधत्स्व सर्वकार्याणि यानि यानिह वाञ्चसि |"The destruction has come for Ravana the evil minded king and to all Rakshasas due to Seetha."
So, the moment Shri Hanuman defeated Lankhini, the protective energy of Lanka was broken. And, as a consequence, Trijata got the dream, foretelling the fall of Ravana and demons.
