- Jatasura
Jatāsura (जटासुर) was a
Rakshasa who disguised himself as aBrahman and carriedYudhishthira ,Sahadeva ,Nakula , andDraupadi . He was overtaken and killed byBhima .According to the Mahabharata (Book III: Varna Parva, Section 156), Jatasura used his powers of illusion to appear in the guise of a Brahmana to the Pandavas. His objective was to gain their confidence in order to seize their weapons, ravish their wife
Draupadi , and take some captives. He lay in wait "like unto a fire covered with ashes." One day whenBhima was gone, Jatasura took on a monstrous form, seized the weapons and Draupadi, and fled with three of the Pandavas, includingYudhishthira , as his captives. Yudhishthira, however, confused him by showering him with moral accusations, and Jatasura slowed down enough for Bhima to catch up. The doomed Jatasura fought valiantly, but in the end Bhima knocked him out with a punch to the neck, lifted him up and dashed him to the ground, and severed his head from his neck.ee also
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Aesir-Asura correspondence References
*Dowson's Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology
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