Lexicographical Neighbors of Rakshases
Literary usage of Rakshases
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eleven Years in Ceylon: Comprising Sketches of the Field Sports and Natural by Jonathan Forbes, George Turnour (1841)
"Rawana, " the mighty hero, the King of the rakshases."— Ramayan, Book I. section i.
Rama says, " Where, O Brahmin, is thy sacrifice which is to be protected ..."
2. Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India by John Muir (1874)
"The greater part of the tribes 115 In RV, ir. 4, 15, another epithet, viz.
as'as, " one who does not praise [the gods]," is applied to the rakshases. ..."
3. Historical Studies and Recreations by Shoshee Chunder Dutt (1879)
"The case was thus bitterly summed up by Havana and his counsellors: " All the
rakshases are slain and never revive, but the monkeys that are slain rise up ..."
4. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1828)
"... assumes again the form of a procession of rakshases, the followers of ...
of a garden, sits little Sita, guarded by frightful rakshases. ..."
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