rakshasa: Media
Hindu mythology
Images
Shurpanakha (center) demanding that her brother Ravana (enthroned, right) exact revenge...
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2018.107 (CC0)
The 10-headed demon Ravana, king of the rakshasas and the antagonist in...
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, Gift of George P. Bickford (1966.143), www.clevelandart.org.
An effigy of the demon Ravana erupting into flames to mark the end of Dussehra in...
© Satish Bate—Hindustan Times/Getty Images
Illustrating the pivotal story in the third book of the Ramayana, this folio...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter (M.86.345.3), www.lacma.org
Blue baby Krishna killing the rakshasi Putana. Opaque watercolor and ink...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2002 (2002.176); www.metmuseum.org
Ravana's giant brother, Kumbhakarna (“pot-eared”), being killed by Rama and Lakshmana....
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Gift of George W. Bahlke, 2001 (2001.541); www.metmuseum.org
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