Rākṣasī guards of Sītā
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rākṣasī women · a slave-woman · guards of terrible aspect · rākṣasīs · slave-women · terrible Rākṣasī women · the rākṣasī women
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Grotesque demoness guards surrounding and watching over the captive Sītā in the Aśoka grove.
Terrible and smoke-haired rākṣasī women with disfigured faces, constantly drinking, always fond of flesh and wine.
Short and tall, hunchbacked and deformed, dwarfish and frightful, crooked in garment, tawny-eyed, with disfigured faces.
As Hanūmān, son of Māruta, was eager to behold the daughter of Videha, he saw, not far away, rākṣasī women of terrible aspect.
Letters
Enslaved women referenced as a comparison class in rulings on sexual sin and coercion.
So that even the slave-woman, if she was forced by her own master, is without blame.
It is a great sin even for a slave-woman to give herself to secret marriages and to fill the house with corruption, and through an evil life to outrage her owner;