Yātudhānas
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yātudhānas · Yātudhāna · sorcerers · the chanting one · yātudhāna
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Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
A class of malevolent sorcerers/demons who are the target of exorcism spells and amulet protections.
Do thou, O Agni, bring the yātudhānas here in bonds — then let Indra with his vajra split open their skulls.
Let the yātudhānas wail — those ravenous devourers who are kimīdins — and do thou, O Agni, and Indra, find delight in this our oblation.
O Parameṣṭhin of the oblation, O Jātavedas, O master of thy body — O Agni, having partaken of the tula-offering, cause the yātudhānas to cry out in distress.
Rigveda
Sorcerer-demons who steal flesh and milk, targeted throughout the Rakṣoghna hymn for destruction by Agni.
Blazing against the injurious demons — let not the Yātudhānas deceive you, O man-seeing one.
O Agni, having bent your arrows with sacrifices, smearing the sticks with your voice like lightning-bolts — with these pierce the Yātudhānas in the heart;
O Agni, the arrow that is born from the biting of pairs this day, when the chanting ones produce the harsh weapon of voice from wrath of mind — with that arrow pierce the Yātudhānas in the heart.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
A class of rākṣasa demon-sorcerers within Laṅkā, noted for reciting the Vedas and for their intellect and prestige.
In that city he saw Yātudhānas — the demon-sorcerers — foremost in intellect, bearing lovely names, revered and regarded as chiefs of the world, of many varieties and with pleasing appellations.
He saw yātudhānas engaged in recitation of the Vedas, and rākṣasas roaring praises to Rāvaṇa.