Grāhī
mythological figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the Grāhī-demoness · the seizing demon
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The Grāhī-demoness, a seizing spirit blamed for a man's incoherent, maddened state.
Release this man for me, O Agni—he who, seized by a Grāhī-demoness, babbles incoherently.
May he not be released from the nooses of Grāhī.
Rigveda
Demon of seizure/consumption from whom the patient is ritually freed.
If the Grāhī (the seizing demon) has seized him, from her, O Indra and Agni, set this one free.