Kabandha
mythological figure · 3 works · 9 mentions · 18 anchored passages
a Rākṣasa · dānava · son of Danu · the Dānava · the blood-drinker with arms a yojana long · the great Dānava
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
A misshapen rākṣasa slain by Rāma who, before dying, directs him to the ascetic Śabarī.
Kabandha told him of Śabarī, a female ascetic who walks the path of righteousness, skilled in dharma:
Named Kabandha, grotesquely misshapen in form and dreadful to behold — him the long-armed hero slew and burned, and he ascended to heaven.
life will be hard to regain.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Mythic figure under whose command locusts of white, green, black and red colors are said to act, before being crushed in the charm.
The white ones, the green ones, the black ones, and the red ones — under the command of Kabandha, we crush the locusts.
Rigveda
A great demonic being shattered by Indra's thunderbolt.
When Indra raised the irresistible weapon of might against the great Dānava — when in the wielding of the thunderbolt he shattered him — he made the lowest of all creatures.