Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.377

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c5.377

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c5.377

DEVĀNTAKA. A Rākṣasa, the son of Rudraketu. When the people of the three worlds could no longer stand his depredations Gaṇapati incarnated in Kaśyapa's house and killed Devāntaka. (Padma Purāṇa, Sṛṣṭi Khaṇḍa).

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Padmapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit