महाकपाल (mahAkapAla)

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Monier Williams Cologne

English

 महा—कपाल m.
  ‘large-headed’,  N.
  of a Rākṣasa,  R.
 

 of one of the attendants of Śiva,  L.
 

पुराणम्

English

महाकपाल १ / MAHĀKAPĀLA I. A minister of the rākṣasa dūṣaṇa. (vālmīki rāmāyaṇa,  araṇya Kāṇḍa,  23rd sarga).

महाकपाल २ / MAHĀKAPĀLA II. A rākṣasa who attacked rāma and lakṣmaṇa at pañcavaṭī. In vālmīki rāmāyaṇa,  araṇya Kāṇḍa,  26th sarga we read that when rāma and lakṣmaṇa fought with khara,  dūṣaṇa and triśiras  there were three terrible Rākṣasas named mahākapāla,  sthūlākṣa and Pramāthin.

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