Rakshasa
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Rakshasa （Sanskrit: राक्षस, IAST: rākṣasa: Pali: rakkhaso）, while female rakshasa are known as a rakshasi, is a adjective for cannibalistic beings in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.
Rakshasas are also called "man-eaters" （nri-chakshas, kravyads）.
Rakshas is also used to describe Asuras, which are power seeking deities that lack divinity.
They are often depicted as antagonists in Dharmic religious scriptures.
Their literary origins can be traced to Vedic sources through Hymn 87 of the tenth mandala of the Rigveda.
They are classified amongst the Yatudhanas, mythological beings that consume raw flesh.
Rakshasas were believed to have been created from the breath of Brahma when he was asleep at the end of the Satya Yuga.
As soon as they were created, they were so filled with bloodlust that they started eating Brahma himself.
Brahma shouted "Rakshama!" （Sanskrit for "Protect me!"） and Vishnu came to his aid, banishing to Earth all Rakshasas （named after Brahma's cry for help）.
Rakshasas were most often depicted as shape-shifting, fierce-looking, enormous monstrous-looking creatures, with two fangs protruding from the top of the mouth and having sharp, claw-like fingernails.
They were shown as being mean, growling beasts, and as insatiable man-eaters that could smell the scent of human flesh.
Some of the more ferocious ones were shown with flaming red eyes and hair, drinking blood with their cupped hands or from human skulls （similar to representations of vampires in later Western mythology）.
Generally they could fly, vanish, and had maya （magical powers of illusion）, which enabled them to change size at will and assume the form of any creature.
The female equivalent of rakshasa is rakshasi.
In the world of the Ramayana and Mahabharata, Rakshasas were a populous race.
There were both good and evil rakshasas, and as warr...
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