Khasa

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Wife of Kaśyapa and mother of the Yakṣas and Rākṣasas — guardians of treasure and wilderness on one side, and the fierce nocturnal beings of the epics on the other. Neither classification settles moral character: Vibhīṣaṇa is born among Rākṣasas and becomes a devotee of Rāma.

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