Talk:Rakshasa

Noah: Rumor has it that they can disguise themselves as human, although their backwards-facing hands will always give them away. Nasty dudes. Very powerful.

tcm: whomever changed this to the other thing about ogres and such, could you let me know, please? i found no pre-1000 AD evidence for any of that stuff. also, don't enter things about post-1000 AD textual evidence because there's no way our characters would know any of that.

Kerry: tcm, it was me. Have you perhaps heard of the Ramayana, or the Mahabharata? I have read a fair bit of both, and both are dated well before 1000 AD. Parts about the Vishnu cult being an interpolation are very germane, as this may or may not have happened by 1000AD. Before you go around writing things about citing non-period texts you should conisder well your own spate of recent postings, and tell me if you can provide a period text that says Rakshasas are tiger spirits, as that is in no way stated or implied in any Sanskrit text I have read. In fact, what is the text you are getting all of your info from? When was it written? Ditto for your spelling Rakshasha. Sanskrit transliteration is well codified, and that last symbol does not have a value sh.