The Hindu marriage (Sanskrit: विवाह, romanized: Vivāha, lit. 'Marriage') is the most important of all the samskaras, the rites of passage described in...

without the performance of rituals or witnesses) to the rakshasa vivaha (a "demoniac" marriage, performed by abduction of one participant by the other...

is a woman who lists herself in catalogs and is selected by a man for marriage. In the twentieth century, the trend primarily involved women living in...

Puranas attest that Rakshasas, Yakshas and Gandharvas were related and had inter-marriages. Ravana was the most famous Rakshasa who ruled from the Trikuta...

Chandragupta by Rakshasa. Wearing the jewels given by Rakshasa, he pretended to be an agent of Rakshasa. The letter, sealed with Rakshasa's signet-ring,...

rituals or seeking consent from their parents, as well as in the rakshasa marriage, where a man forcibly abducted a maiden after killing her kin, after...

Rakshasa marriage - where the groom forcibly abducted the girl against her and her family's will. The word Rakshasa means 'devil'. Paishacha marriage...

Vivaha, (7) Rakshasa Vivaha, and (8) Paishacha Vivaha. The first four types of marriages reflect the paradigm behind arranged marriages. The last three...

known as Rakshasa Vivaha ("marriage by abduction, devil's marriage"), mentioned e.g. by Kautilya. It is one of the eight forms of marriage and it is...

strategy. One day, Surpanakha, the rakshasa sister of Ravana, disguised herself as a beautiful maiden and proposed marriage to Rama. Rama refused her proposal...

Accordingly, Kaikasi gives birth to the rakshasas Ravana, Kumbhakarna, and Shurpanakha, and one virtuous rakshasa who had the characteristics of a Brahmin...

the same forest lived Hiḍimbi and her brother Hiḍimbā, a very powerful rakshasa. He smelled the Pāṇḍavās at a distance and as usual asked Hiḍimbi to lure...

sometimes related to his subjects: "king of yakshas" (Yaksharajan), "Lord of rakshasas" (Rakshasadhipati), "Lord of Guhyakas" (Guhyakadhipa), "king of Kinnaras"(Kinnararaja)...

structure as unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationships. Its opposite, exogamy, describes the social norm of marriage outside of the group...

off the Jata or hair tuft by which the rakshasa was known as Jatasura, which infuriated him further. The rakshasa then, with magical powers, as a mayavi...

three holy muni on the road his journey, who direct him to a garden with rakshasas that guard the bel tree with the fruit that holds the princess. The third...

Shurpanakha for marrying a Danava. The Danavas were the mortal enemies of Rakshasas. Enraged Ravana decided to kill both of them. Thus waged a war against...

banks of the river "Mandakini" to look after her child. There was a demon (Rakshasa) by name "Kukur" who tortured her. Then Goddess Bhavani rescued Anubhuthi...

settles in the Dandaka forest from where she is abducted by Ravana, the Rakshasa king of Lanka. She is imprisoned in the garden of Ashoka Vatika, in Lanka...

Bhootham - voice for Mahadevan Karumadikkuttan – voice for Suresh Krishna Rakshasa Rajavu – voice for Suresh Krishna Farzi – voice for Amol Palekar Voice...

named Padma - an incarnate of the goddess Lakshmi. When her marriage is organized, Rakshasas (demons) kill the king. The grief-stricken Padma jumps into...

(Volume Two) (Devraj to Jyoti). ISBN 978-81-260-1194-0. "Ghatotkacha - Rakshasa Son of Bheema - Indian Mythology". Archived from the original on 10 January...

turned into the core of the entity known as the Evil. Sunkrish Bala as Rakshasa, a Bengal tiger demi-god who protected the Indian jungle. Jack Bandeira...

into pieces innumerable keen-edged shafts, he slew Mura and hosts of Rakshasas, and then entered that city. It was there, that an encounter took place...

Shiva, Parvati, Vibhishan, Jatayu, Sugriva, Surpanakha, Ravana and his rakshasa court, Meghnaad, Kumbhakarna, and the army of monkeys and demons. Tamil...

Murthy, 1984. Ghati Deva Yadavaraya, Veera Narasingadeva Yadavaraya, Veera Rakshasa Yadavaraya and Ranganatha Yadavaraya Sri Venkateswara Bhakti Channel Sapthagiri...

when Bhrigu's wife Puloma was pregnant and lived in her hermitage, a rakshasa harassed her. Puloma's child slipped from her womb, called a 'chyuta' child...

weapons from Indra and also the bow, Gandiva, from Varuna. Alambusha was a Rakshasa. In the Kurukshetra War, he fought from the Kaurava side. During the war...

brought his might to the fore and defeated Bakasura. Later, Bhima slays the rakshasa Hidimba and he is beseeched by Hidimbi, Hidimba's sister, to wed her. Bhima...

Agitated by this reversal, the eldest Kaurava, Duryodhana, orders the rakshasa (giant) Alamvusha (or Alambusha), son of Rishyasringa, to kill Iravan....