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Women have been always treated as unoriginal and have not given equal rights and opportunities in the society. Feminist movement arouse out of injustice taught by men against women. In Feminist literature, female characters occupy a prominent place. Mandodari is one of the unimportant characters in Ramayana who is the most beautiful apsaras married to the legendary and mighty king Ravana. To queen Mandodari’s shock, he marries more women and takes on many concubines. This works also throws light on the birth secret of Sita. This paper tries to explore the feminist elements in the life of Mandodari as portrayed by Mainini J. Anandani in Mandodari: Queen of Lanka.