[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879) › c5.2120 # A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.2120 A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.2120 - **Language:** English ### [c5.2120](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.2120) VISRAVAS. Son of the Prajāpati Pulastya, or, according to a statement of the Mahā-bhārata, a reproduction of half Pulastya himself. By a Brahmanī wife, daughter of the sage Bharadwāja, named Idavidā or Ilavidā, he had a son, Kuvera, the god of wealth. By a Rākshasī named Nikashā or Kaikasī, daughter of Sumāli, he had three sons, Rāvana, Kumbha-karna, and Vibhīshana and a daughter named Sūrpa-nakhā. The Vishnu Purāna substitutes Kesinī for Nikashā. The account given by the Mahā-bhārata is that Pulastya, being offended with Kuvera for his adulation of Brahmā, reproduced half of himself as Visravas, and Kuvera to recover his favour gave him three Rākshasī handmaids: Pushpotkatā, the mother of Rāvana and Kumbhakarna; Mālinī, the mother of Vibhīshana; and Rākā, the mother of Khara and Sūrpa-nakhā. - [Previous: c5.2119](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.2119) - [Next: c5.2121](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.2121) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5) ## Cites (2) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Viṣṇupurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.2120](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.2120) · Pramāṇa