 Valmiki's solution to the political paradox of epic India is the "divinized king" who combats evil in the form of a 'demonized others'.Later medieval commentaries of Valmiki's Ramayana include instances where the Muslim outsiders are cast as "rakshasas" and asuras, and in the case of a Mughal translation of the epic, of Akbar being projected as the divine king, Rama and divs as the rakshasas.Pollock conjectures that this recurrent "mythopolitical strategy" of using the Ramayana as a political instrument has also found favour in modern India in the Ayodhya dispute.