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...

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...

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

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...

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

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,...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

prominent encounter during their exile was with the Rakshasa Kirmira, the brother of the Rakshasa Baka, whom Bhima had previously slain in Ekachakra....

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...

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...

deployed against him, but quickly assembled his hordes of rakshasas. This sarga describes the rakshasa army commanders and their weapons in detail. A continuation...

(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...

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...

After the Rakshasa's marriage, the Rakshasi asks her daughter-in-law to eat the human princess, but somehow she cannot do so. Back to the Rakshasa and the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The word is also used to describe Rudra, the fierce god, as well as the Rakshasa. In the epic, Devavrata received this as he undertook a fierce or terrible...

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

smaller ones; the Rakshasas gang up on him and devour the boy. The muni sends a crow to find him, and bids the bird brings the Rakshasas' excrement to the...

common people and orders Bhima to kill the rakshasa named Baka. After Arjuna wins Draupadi's hand in marriage, the Pandavas return home, rhetorically asking...