-
books 3-6 of the Rāmāyaṇa, the
rākṣasas are the main
antagonists of the narrative. The
protagonist Rāma
slays many
rākṣasas throughout the epic, including...
- Island, it is
referred to as ora,
buaya darat ('land crocodile'), or
biawak raksasa ('giant monitor').
Genetic analysis of
mitochondrial DNA
shows the Komodo...
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devoured by a
Rākṣasa emplo**** by Vishwamitra:
violent anger seized me and I
commenced a
sacrifice for the
destruction of the
Rākṣasas:
hundreds of them...
-
haunts the
wilderness and
waylays and
devours travellers,
similar to the
rakṣasas.
Yakshas appear in Hindu, Jain and
Buddhist texts.
Several monumental yakshas...
- CE),
there are
references to
Brahmins who were born into the
families of
Raksasas. He
posits that this is an
indication that some
Brahmins are immigrants...
- of many
terms (such as
Sanskrit tāmisra, niśācara, and kṣaṇada) for the
rākṣasas, a
class of
Indian demons A
synonym for
vampire This
disambiguation page...
- kind leader, come
hither to us with his help and favour.
Driving off
Raksasas and Yatudhanas, [he] the god is present,
praised in
hymns at evening. –...
- Tāṭakā and Mārīca
attack the seer Agastya, who
curses Mārīca to
become a
rākṣasa and
curses Tāṭakā to
become an ugly man-eater.
Driven mad by the curse...
-
invasions of ****an. The
label on the land m**** in the
south reads: "Country of
Raksasas:
inhabited by women;
people who
visit never return" (羅刹國 女人萃来人不還). This...
- Daśaratha to lend him his
eldest (but
still adolescent) son Rāma to slay the
rākṣasas Mārīca and Subāhu, who are
disrupting Viśvāmitra's sacrifice. Daśaratha...
