1) He defeated six-thousand warriors at once:
"Vidyādhara-soldiers came, obscuring him with weapons, like clouds a great mountain. Rāvaṇa, having cruel strength, broke missiles with missiles and not wishing to kill them, bewildered them at once with the missile Prasvāpana. Daśānana bound them like cattle with magic nooses and released them, asked by his wives for their fāthers as a boon."
https://www.wisdomlib.org/jainism/book/trishashti-shalaka-purusha-caritra/d/doc213991.htmlTheir were six thousand woman who wanted him in the above incident:
He saw six thousand Khecara-maidens bathing in a pool there like Apsarases in the Ocean of Milk. Desiring a husband, they looked at him with affection, their lotus-eyes wide-open, like day-blooming lotuses looking at the sun. Casting aside modesty at once, afflicted by strong love, they themselves asked him, “Be our husband.”
https://www.wisdomlib.org/jainism/book/trishashti-shalaka-purusha-caritra/d/doc213991.html So they are likely to each have a father.
2) Destroyed the army of Kuber:
"Daśakaṇṭha started to Laṅkā with his brothers and his army in great anger. His advance having been announced by the messenger who had gone ahead, Vaiśravaṇa went forth from Laṅkā with his army to fight. Daśakandhara destroyed his army in a moment, like a wind destroying a forest, advancing unchecked. When his army had been destroyed by Rāvaṇa, considering himself destroyed, Vaiśravaṇa reflected, the fire of anger extinguished."
3) Taming a elephant:
"a forest-elephant trumpeted at the noise of the army. Then a door-keeper, named Prahasta, said to Daśānana, “He is a jewel of an elephant, Your Majesty. He deserves to be the vehicle of a god.” Then Daśānana made him submissive in sport and mounted him whose tusks were large and long, whose eyes were yellow like honey, like a spire with a lofty finial, like a mountain with a cascade of ichor, seven cubits high, nine cubits long."
4) Vanquishing Yama:
"After they had sent arrow against arrow for a long time, Yama attacked quickly, raising his cruel staff, like a rogue-elephant his trunk. Daśagrīva broke it into pieces with a sharp-edged arrow, like a piece of a lotus-stalk, esteeming his enemies as eunuchs. Again Yama covered Rāvaṇa with arrows and Rāvaṇa checked them, like greed all the virtues. Then Daśānana, raining many arrows simultaneously, weakened Yama, like old age causing loss of strength. Then Yama escaped from the fight, and went in haste to Indra the Vidyādhara-lord, chief of Rathanūpura."
5) Installing Vali's father as adipati of Kishkinda:
"King Sūryarajas was your father. The people know how I dragged him from Yama’s prison and how I installed him in the kingdom of Kiṣkindhā, that also is well known. Now Vālīn, you are his son, knowing what is proper. Therefore do service to me as before because of the relation of master and servant."
6) Was skilled at firing astras:
"Rāvaṇa even discharged his magic missiles, Sarpa, Varuṇa, et cetera, and Vālin destroyed them by his missiles."
7) One his wives was a sister of Vali & Sugreeb:
"Daśānana, whose command was acknowledged by Sugrīva, married his sister, Śrīprabhā, took her and went to Laṅkā."
8) Got a spear from the nagA Lord:
"Saying this, he gave Rāvaṇa the spear, Amoghavijayā (Unerring Victory), and the vidyā which makes changes in appearance and went to his own abode."
9) Fought Sahastrarjun to a draw:
"Both angry, both very strong, both determined, they fought for a long time with various weapons. Realizing that he could not be defeated by strength of arm, Rāvaṇa seized the king of Māhiṣmatī, after bewildering him like an elephant with a vidyā. Praising him as very heroic, Daśagrīva himself conducted him to the camp, very humble, considering himself conquered even though he had conquered."
10) Obtaining the Sudarshan chakra:
"There Rāvaṇa came into possession of the cakra named Sudarśana, invincible even to gods and demons, irresistible to Śakra’s kinsman."
11) What Indra's dad has to say about Ravan:
"Now a hero has appeared, the thief of all heroism, a sun in splendor, the restrainer of Sahasrāṃśu by whom. Kailāsa was easily uprooted, the destroyer of Marutta’s sacrifice, he whose mind was unshaken by the Lord of Jambūdvīpa, the Indra of the Yakṣas, who has the trustworthy spear Amoghā from Dharaṇendra, whose mind was delighted by song with the lute of his arm in the presence of the Arhat, powerful from the three regal powers, haughty from two brothers like himself, like his arms, Rāvaṇa, Lord of Laṅkā, sun of the family of Sukeśa. He crushed Yama and your vassal, Vaiśravaṇa, with ease and he made a vassal of the king of the Vānaras, Sugrīva, the brother of Vālin. The younger brother of him who had entered the city Durlaṅgha with its wall of fire hard to cross bound and captured Nalakūbara. Now he is approaching you, violent as the fire at the end of the world. He must be calmed by the rain of nectar of humility, not otherwise. Offer him your beautiful daughter, Rūpavatī. So you will have the best alliance because of the connection."
12) Capturing Indra:
"Now with darts, now with arrows, now with hammers Rāvaṇa and Indra fought like the two unequaled elephants. Very powerful, they ground missiles to pieces with missiles mutually. One was not inferior to the other, like the east and west ocean. The two of them, who had been initiated in the ceremony of battle, fought with magic missiles which quickly participated in the state of oppressed and oppressor like a general rule and the exception. While the two elephants, Airāvaṇa and Bhuvanālaṅkāra, were closely joined like two pieces of fruit on one stalk, Rāvaṇa, knowing tricks, leaped from his elephant, went to Airāvaṇa, killed the mahout, and captured Indra as well as the Indra of elephants. The elephant was entirely surrounded below by the Rakṣas-soldiers making a loud noise from joy, like a piece of honey by bees. When Śakra (Indra) had been captured by Rāvaṇa, his army fled in all directions. When the lord has been conquered, the soldiers are surely conquered. Rāvaṇa led Indra with Airāvaṇa to his own camp and he himself became chief in the two rows."
13) Making hanuman a pet lap dog:
"Seeing Hanumat who had come, like victory itself, Daśakandhara set him joyfully on his lap, when he bowed."
14) Defeating Baruna:
"Blind with anger, Varuṇa fought hard with Rāvaṇa for a long time, like a bull with a bull, an elephant with an elephant. Crafty Rāvaṇa bewildered Varuṇa with all his strength and, flying up, bound him like Indra. Craft is equal to strength always. Then the heavens having been made talkative with cries of Victory! Victory! Daśakandhara, broad-shouldered, went to his camp."
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