Everyone and everything
Ravana
The ten-headed king of Lanka and a great devotee of Shiva: he tried to lift Kailash and was pinned under Shiva's toe…
Hiranyakashipu
Asura king armed with a boon that no man or beast, weapon, day or night, indoors or outdoors, could kill him; father…
The Tripura demons
Tarakaksha · Kamalaksha · Vidyunmali · Tripurasura
The three sons of Taraka who won from Brahma three flying cities of iron, silver and gold, built by the architect Maya…
Andhaka
The blind demon born of the sweat of Parvati's hands when she covered Shiva's eyes, adopted by Hiranyaksha, who lusted…
Kaitabha
Twin of Madhu, born from Vishnu's ear-wax. Deluded by the Goddess in the Devi Mahatmya, the pair grant Vishnu a boon…
Madhu
One of the twin demons born from the wax of Vishnu's ears while he sleeps on the cosmic waters. With Kaitabha he…
Vrikasura
Vrika · Vrikasura son of Sakuni
The demon of Bhagavata 10.88. On Narada's advice he worships Shiva at Kedara with his own flesh, wins the boon that…
Bhasmasura
Bhasmasur · the ash demon
A demon who wins from Shiva the power to burn to ash whoever he touches on the head, and turns it on the giver. Vishnu…
Dushana
Dushan
The demon of the Ujjain temple legend who joined two hostile kings against the city of the Shiva-devotee king…
Guhasura
Guha
The demon of the Harihar charter, who ruled the country between Uchchangi Durga and Airani and won from Brahma the boon…
Jalandhara
The ocean-born asura whose wife Vrinda's fidelity made him invincible until Vishnu broke it; killed by Shiva.
Mahishasura
Mahisha
The buffalo demon whose boon of near-invulnerability, granted by Brahma in most tellings, is undone by the goddess…
Mahishi
The buffalo-demoness of the Sabarimala tradition, born of a curse on the celestials Datta and Leela, who won from…
Bhimasura
In popular temple tellings, a son of Kumbhakarna who imprisoned the devotee Kamarupa and was struck down by Shiva's…
Hiranyaksha
The demon king who adopted the blind child Andhaka. Stub entity for that story; the Vishnu cycle (Varaha) owns his full…
Maya Danava
Maya
The architect of the demons who built the three cities for Taraka's sons and, in the Bhagavata, revived the slain…
Murasura
Mura
The demon of the Padma Purana slain with the help of the power Vishnu named Ekadashi, the legend behind Vaikuntha…
Narakasura
The demon of Pragjyotisha killed by Krishna (with Satyabhama) on the day South and West India keep as Naraka…
Rahu
Svarbhanu · Ketu
The asura Svarbhanu who drank the nectar in a god's disguise, was exposed by the sun and moon and beheaded by Mohini's…
Taraka
Tarakasura
The demon whose boon made him killable only by a son of Shiva, the reason the gods sent Kama and the reason Kartikeya…
Vajranabha
The demon Brahma kills with his lotus-weapon before the Pushkar sacrifice; where the petals fall the three Pushkar…
Gajasura
The elephant-demon whose head, in the Shiva Purana's telling as summarised, replaced the head of Parvati's son. Stub…
Holika
Hiranyakashipu's sister, immune to fire, who sat in a pyre with Prahlada on her lap and burned while he lived; the Holi…
Muka
The demon who charged Arjuna as a wild boar and was shot at once by Arjuna and by Shiva the hunter. Stub entity.