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दुन्दुभिनिह्राद (dundubhinihrAda)

 
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दुन्दुभिनिह्राद / DUNDUBHINIHRĀDA. A powerful rākṣasa, who was the son of diti and the uncle of prahlāda. When, in the fierce fight between the devas and the asuras the latter got absolutely defeated this rākṣasa ascribed the reson for the failure to the brahmins and began killing them. He captured the kāśī temple and many other temples like it. In the circumstances śiva gave refuge to the brahmins of kāśī, and the rākṣasa was destroyed by Śivaśakti. (Śivarudrasaṁhitā, yuddha Kāṇḍa, Chapter 58).