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Definition of Rakshasas
1. rakshasa [n] - See also: rakshasa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rakshasas
Literary usage of Rakshasas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1869)
"HISTORY- OF mans against the rakshasas. It has also been seen I>AHT iv. that the
rakshasas are not to be simply confounded Not to be con- with the ..."
2. Village Folk-tales of Ceylon by Henry Parker (1914)
"The rakshasas seized the men. Well then, the four rakshasas having shared four
men ate them; one person remained over. One Rakshasa said to another Rakshasa ..."
3. A Handbook of Sanskrit Literature: With Appendices Descriptive of the by George Small (1866)
"Many stories, respecting the wars of the rakshasas, or Cannibal-giants, ...
The rakshasas are all Brahmans, and are said to dwell in the south-west corner ..."
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