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Pishachas (Sanskrit: पिशाच,
Piśāca) are flesh-eating
demons in
Indian religions,
appearing in
Hindu and
Buddhist mythologies. A
pishacha is a malevolent...
- death,
become forces of Mara.
These forces consist of Yaksas, Raksases,
Pisacas,
Aratis and animals. His name is
first mentioned in the
Atharva Veda (1200...
- to
watch over the
Pisacas (a type of evil spirit). The
Nilamata Purana refers to him as "the
noble and
strong lord of the
Pisacas."
Seeing Kumbha, his...
- The
Nuristani languages, also
known as
Kafiri languages, are one of the
three groups within the Indo-Iranian
language family,
alongside the much larger...
- of King Vikramāditya and his
nightly quests to
capture an
elusive one.
Piśāca, the
returned spirits of evil-doers or
those who died insane, also bear...
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Kasyapa cursed them to live with the
Pisacas. At the
request of Nila the
curse was
modified to the
extent that the
Pisacas would go
every year for a period...
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considers them
equally impotent in
search for liberation.
Demons (bhūta, preta,
piśāca) may thus be
understood as
personifications of
correlative mental states...
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follows Masica (1991), and
Kausen (2006). The
Dardic languages (also
Dardu or
Pisaca) are a
group of Indo-Aryan
languages largely spoken in the northwestern...
- Hindupedia. Rodrigues, Hillary. 'Asuras, Daityas, Dānavas, Rākṣasas,
Piśācas, Bhūtas, Pretas, and so Forth.' Brill's
Encyclopedia of
Hinduism Online...
- his
daitya magic.
Hundreds of
weapons belonging to guhyakas, gandharvas,
pisacas, and
uragas (celestial snakes) were am****ed to
combat him, but all fell...
