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Definition of Rakshasa
1. Noun. (''in Hinduism'') A malignant demon at war with Rama and Hanuman; a representation of such a demon ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rakshasa
1. rakshas [n -S] - See also: rakshas
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rakshasa
Literary usage of Rakshasa
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 (1874)
"rakshasa, on his part, sends a minstrel to sing verses in the hearing of ...
rakshasa hears that the quarrel has reached such a pitch, that Chanakya has ..."
2. Village Folk-tales of Ceylon by Henry Parker (1914)
"219 The Story of the rakshasa IN a certain country three youths, brothers, ...
At that time the rakshasa brought and gave them food for all three to eat. ..."
3. Natives of Northern India by William Crooke (1907)
"Malignant spirits: the rakshasa, the Deo, the Daitya, the Bhut. Animal-worship:
Tigers, Snakes. Totemism. Progress of Animism into Hinduism. ..."
4. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"... scattered the aboriginal mees styled rakshasa or demons driving some into the
mountain and forest retreats, where we still find them living in barbarous ..."
5. Ancient and Mediaeval India by Manning (Charlotte Speir) (1869)
"From which reflections we infer that rakshasa was probably more fitted for literary
than ... The plots drag on rather wearily, until rakshasa is subdued, ..."
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