List of Rakshasas
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A
- Acalā - One of the Ten Rakshasis of the Lotus Sutra ☸
- Akampana - One of Sumālī's ten sons ॐ
- Akṣayakumāra - One of Rāvaṇa's seven sons ॐ
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- Alambasa ॐ
- Alambuṣa ॐ
- Alāyudha ॐ
- Alumvusha ॐ
- Amarāri ॐ
- Aṅkūra - One of Kumbha's sons ॐ
- Anthkashur =very powerful in lanka ॐ
- Aśaniprabha ॐ
- Atikāya - One of Rāvaṇa's seven sons ॐ
B
- Bāka - Bakāsura's attendant ॐ
- Bakāsura ॐ
- Balāka ॐ
- Vibhīṣaṇa ॐ
- Bhāsakarṇa - One of Sumālī's ten sons ॐ
- Bhīma ॐ
- Bhīmaratha ॐ
- Bhīṣaṇa ॐ
- Bhīṣma ॐ
- Bhūtagrasani - One of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahamayuri Vidyarajni Sutra ☸
- Brahmāpeta - Dwells in the sun during the month of Māgha (Viṣṇu Purāṇa) or Iṣa (Bhāgavata Purāṇa) ॐ
- Budha - Dwells in the sun during the month of Āṣādha or Śukra (Viṣṇu Purāṇa). Replaces Sahajanya from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa ॐ
C
- Cāpa - Dwells in the sun during the month of Kārttika (Viṣṇu Purāṇa). Replaces Varcā from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa ॐ
- Chantotkania ॐ
D
- Devāntaka - One of Rāvaṇa's seven sons ॐ
- Dhūmrāksa - One of Sumālī's ten sons ॐ
- Dhoomralochana ॐ
- Durdama - A gandharva cursed by Vasiṣṭha to be a rakshasa for seventeen years ॐ
- Durgam ॐ
- Dūṣaṇa ॐ
E
- Ekajaṭā ॐ☸
- Elapatra - Dwells in the sun during the month of Srāvaṇa or Nabhas (Viṣṇu Purāṇa). Replaces Varya from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa ॐ
G
- Ghaṭotkaca - A half-rakshasa from the Mahābhārata ॐ
H
- Hari - One of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra ☸
- Harikeśi - One of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra ☸
- Haripiṅgale - One of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra ☸
- Harīti - One of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra ☸
- Heti - Dwells in the sun during the month of Madhu (Bhāgavata Purāṇa) or Chaitra (Viṣṇu Purāṇa) ॐ
- Hidimba ॐ
- Hiḍimbī ॐ
I
J
- Jambūmālin - Killed by Hanuman ॐ
- Jarā - A rakshasi also known as Barmata or Bandi ॐ
- Jarāsandha ॐ
- Jaṭāsura ॐ
- Jāṭāsuri - Another name for Alaṁbuṣa ॐ
K
- Kabandha - A gandharva named Vishvavasu or Danu cursed by Indra or the sage Ashtavakra ॐ
- Kaikasī - One of Sumālī's four daughters Rāvaṇa's mother ॐ
- Kālakāmukha - One of Sumālī's ten sons ॐ
- Kālanemi - Rāvaṇa's uncle ॐ
- Kālapāśe - One of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra ☸
- Kālaśodari - One of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra ☸
- Kāli - One of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra ☸
- Kalmāṣapāda - A king of the Ikshvaku dynasty cursed by the sage Vashishtha ॐ
- Kamalākṣi - One of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra ☸
- Kamsa ॐ
- Karāli - One of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra ☸
- Keśinī - One of the Ten Rakshasis of the Lotus Sutra ☸
- Khara ॐ
- Kirmīra ॐ
- Kumbha ॐ
- Kumbhakarṇa - One of Rāvaṇa's brothers ॐ
- Kumbhāṇḍi - One of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra ☸
- Kumbhīnadī - One of Sumālī's four daughters ॐ
- Kuntī - One of the Ten Rakshasis of the Lotus Sutra ☸
- Kūṭadantī - One of the Ten Rakshasis of the Lotus Sutra ☸
L
- Lambā - One of the Ten Rakshasis of the Lotus Sutra ☸
- Laṃbe - One of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra ☸
M
- Makhāpeta - Dwells in the sun during the month of Ūrja (Bhāgavata Purāṇa). Replaces Yajñāpeta from the Viṣṇu Purāṇa ॐ
- Makuṭadantī - One of the Ten Rakshasis of the Lotus Sutra ☸
- Mālādhārī - One of the Ten Rakshasis of the Lotus Sutra ☸
- Mālī - Sumālī's younger brother ॐ
- Mālyavant ॐ
- Mālyavān - Rāvaṇa's Chief Royal Adviser and Sumālī's elder brother ॐ
- Mandodari ॐ
- Māra - The prime antagonist in Buddhism, also known to be an asura or a deva ☸
- Mārīca - Ally of Rāvaṇa, killed by Rāma ॐ
- Malini ॐ
- Meghanāda - Another name of Indrajit ॐ
N
- Nairṛti - Guardian of the southwestern direction ॐ☸
- Narāntaka - One of Rāvaṇa's seven sons ॐ
- Nirṛtī - Mother of the rakshasas and guardian of the southwestern direction ॐ☸
- Nikumbha - One of Rāvaṇa's generals who led the rakshasas against the host of monkeys and was slain. ॐ
- Nikumbhilā ॐ
P
- Pauruṣeya - Dwells in the sun during the month of Śukra (Bhāgavata Purāṇa) or Jyēṣṭha or Śuci (Viṣṇu Purāṇa) ॐ
- Prākvāta - One of Sumālī's ten sons ॐ
- Prahasta (Rāvaṇa's son) - One of Rāvaṇa's seven sons ॐ
- Prahasta - One of Sumālī's ten sons ॐ
- Praheti - Dwells in the sun during the month of Mādhava (Bhāgavata Purāṇa) or Vaiśākha (Viṣṇu Purāṇa) ॐ
- Pralaṃbe - One of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra ☸
- Puṣpadantī - One of the Ten Rakshasis of the Lotus Sutra ☸
- Puṣpotkaṭā - One of Sumālī's four daughters ॐ
R
- Rāvaṇa ॐ☸卐
S
- Sahajanya - Dwells in the sun during the month of Śuci (Bhāgavata Purāṇa). Replaces Budha from the Viṣṇu Purāṇa ॐ
- Sāṃhrāda - One of Sumālī's ten sons ॐ
- Śaṃkhini - One of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra ☸
- Sarvasattvojohārī - One of the Ten Rakshasis of the Lotus Sutra ☸
- Śikhaṇḍī ॐ
- Sinhikha ॐ
- Śūrpaṇakhā - Rāvaṇa's sister ॐ
- Sphūrja - Dwells in the sun during the month of Pauṣa (Viṣṇu Purāṇa) or Puṣya (Bhāgavata Purāṇa) ॐ
- Śrīmati - One of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra ☸
- Subāhu - Tāṛakā's son ॐ
- Sukeśa - Sumālī's father ॐ
- Sumālī - Rāvaṇa's maternal grandfather ॐ
- Supārśvā - One of Sumālī's ten sons ॐ
- samudri rakshasa - asura who lived in the underground water or sea/ocean ॐ
T
V
- Varcā - Dwells in the sun during the month of Tapasya (Bhāgavata Purāṇa). Replaces Cāpa from the Viṣṇu Purāṇa ॐ
- Varya - Dwells in the sun during the month of Nabhas (Bhāgavata Purāṇa). Replaces Elapatra from the Viṣṇu Purāṇa ॐ
- Vāta - Dwells in the sun during the month of Āśvin (Viṣṇu Purāṇa) or Tapas (Bhāgavata Purāṇa) ॐ
- Vekā - One of Sumālī's four daughters ॐ
- Vikaṭa - One of Sumālī's ten sons ॐ
- Vātāpi ॐ
- Vibhīṣaṇa - Rāvaṇa's younger brother ॐ
- Vidyucchatru - Dwells in the sun during the month of Sahas (Bhāgavata Purāṇa). Replaces Vidyut from the Viṣṇu Purāṇa ॐ
- Vidyut - Dwells in the sun during the month of Mārgaśīrṣa (Viṣṇu Purāṇa). Replaces Vidyucchatru from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa ॐ
- Vilambā - One of the Ten Rakshasis of the Lotus Sutra ☸
- Virādha ॐ
- Vyāghra - Dwells in the sun during the month of Bhādrapada (Viṣṇu Purāṇa) or Nabhasya (Bhāgavata Purāṇa) ॐ
Y
- Yajñāpeta - Dwells in the sun during the month of Phālguna (Viṣṇu Purāṇa). Replaces Makhāpeta from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa ॐ
- Yamadūti - One of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra ☸
- Yamarākṣasi - One of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra ☸
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