rakshasa

Example Sentences

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From the crafty ebullience of a rakshasa with a new idea into a gossipy Malayali with a scandal to spread.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

Near them dwelt a horrible rakshasa, Surpanakha by name, who fell in love with Rama.

From National Epics by Rabb, Kate Milner

Sagara, an early king of Ayodhya, had sixty thousand sons, whom he sent out one day to recover a horse that had been designed for the great sacrifice, but had been stolen by a rakshasa.

From National Epics by Rabb, Kate Milner