Unlimited Choice - Devdutt Pattanaik Did Rama have an elder sister Yes, he did, according to a popular tele serial. She is referred to in Balakanda of Valmiki’s Ramayana, as Dashratha and Kaushalya’s daughter who is given in adoption to Rompada, king of Anga, and who marries Rishyashringa, who conducts the yajna that gives Dashratha four sons. The story is elaborated in later regional and folk Ramayanas. For example, in Andhra folk songs, Shanta, Rama’s elder sister, is an important character participating in family rituals. Was it a later interpolation Read full article.