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Lakshmana Min was the daughter of Pagan Min and Ishwari Ghale, and was also Ajay Ghale's maternal half-sister. She was an innocent victim of the conflict between the Golden Path and Min's regime, killed by her mother's husband, Mohan Ghale, before her second birthday.
Born of the affair between Ishwari and Pagan, Mohan took to the news of her existence harshly, seeing Lakshmana as a living incarnation of Ishwari's betrayal to him. Mohan refers to his murder of Lakshmana as "fixing Ishwari's mistake." It is implied that Lakshmana's death may have been the reason why Ishwari killed Mohan.
Nothing is known about Lakshmana due to her very early death. In the one portrait of her found, she has the same symbol on her forehead as Amita, which Ubisoft states is cultural tradition amongst Kyrati women. Her clothes bear the same peacock emblem that Pagan wears on his jacket lapel when he and Ajay first meet, but the symbol's significance is unknown. Ubisoft has confirmed during a Q&A that Lakshmana is definitely dead, and that there is no possibility of her having survived.[1]
Lakshmana's death had a significant emotional affect on her parents. Her mother subsequently fled Kyrat, taking her half-brother Ajay with her. She states that Kyrat is what changed Mohan and thus ultimately killed Lakshmana, and she fears the same will happen to Ajay if she were to stay. When Ishwari dies, her final request is for Ajay to "take [her] back to Lakshmana", though Ajay mistook Lakshmana for being a location, not a person.
It's implied Lakshmana's death is at least somewhat responsible for Pagan's declining mental stability thereafter. He had a shrine built behind his palace to house Lakshmana's ashes, and it is visibly well cared for. Pagan tells Ajay that when he visited Paul De Pleur and his family in the United States, he was jealous of Paul's relationship with his daughter Ashley.
Typically Lakshmana is a male name, however, it is also the name of one of Krishna's eight wives in Hindu mythology. It could be argued that Lakshmana's death was the karmic result of her father having murdered the child heir he had brought to Kyrat two years earlier.
With the last heir murdered by Pagan Min, the Kyrat royal bloodline went extinct. Pagan Min's bloodline also went extinct when Mohan Ghale killed Lakshmana Min.
It is implied that Sabal bloodline is close enough to royalties, as Amita accused Sabal of attempting to crown himself the new king, and Sabal was unable to defend himself from this accusation. If Ajay Ghale kills Sabal in the end, then all possible bloodlines are extinct.
Far Cry 6 DLC - Pagan: Control[]
Lakshmana later appears in the Far Cry 6 DLC Pagan: Control, alongside her mother Ishwari and half-brother Ajay. The Lakshmana shown is not real, and is instead a manifestation of various thoughts and feelings her father has. This is notably displayed by the fact that she looks older than she would have been at the time of her death, and her appearance is most likely a hypothesis of Pagan's, had she been given enough time to grow into childhood.
A doppelganger of Pagan, created from his tyrannical thoughts and feelings, shoots Lakshmana at point-blank range, which may possibly insinuate that Pagan feels responsible for her death, though these events are so dream-like that the hallucination of Lakshmana appears alive again shortly afterwards.
A recorded conversation happens between Ishwari and Pagan where shortly after Lakshmana's death, Ishwari informs Pagan she is leaving for the United States. Pagan tells her that "dead baby or not", she cannot leave and she belongs to him. Ishwari becomes angry at this declaration and leaves the room, most likely because of Pagan's aggression, but the nonchalant way he refers to Lakshmana's death may have also affected her.
Lakshmana spends most of the DLC in danger and calling to her father for help, though since the events of the DLC are a reflection of Pagan's psyche, this possibly more so reflects how much she continues to occupy her father's thoughts, and perhaps the various ways he fantasizes he could have saved her life. Once Pagan reaches Lakshmana, she tells her father through story telling that even though he claimed his attempts to dismantle the Kyrati religion were out of compassion for the harm it did to Ishwari and others, he was actually doing it because he was jealous. She accuses him of being envious of the way people worshipped and loved the Tarun Matara, and felt that as King, he deserved this love instead. Again, since this Lakshmana is not real and is a product of Pagan's mind, this is most likely a reflection of Pagan's own thoughts and insecurities, though it is interesting that it is displayed and spoken through Lakshmana.
In the end, she ultimately reminds her father that she is dead: That they "never could have been together" and that he already knows this, but that his manic attempts to reach her and rescue her regardless made her happy.
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