alāyudha

alāyudha m. N. of a Rākṣasa.

alāyudha a m. ‘whose weapon is the sting from the tail of a scorpion’, N. of a Rākṣasa, MBh. vii, 8004.

alāyudha b See ala.

alāyudha- m. n. d'un Rākṣasa.

alāyudha m. N.pr. eines Rākṣasa MBH. 7,176,1.

Alāyudha, a Rākṣasa. § 599 (Jayadrathavadhap.): VII,

95θ, 3536 (fights Ghaṭotkaca on the fourteenth day of the

battle); 96, 3568 (do.).—§ 600 (Ghaṭotkacavadhap.): VII,

176, 8004 (promises Duryodhana to slay Bhīmasena and his

brothers in order to avenge his kinsmen Baka and Kirmīra

and his friend Hiḍimba, in the night after the fourteenth day of

the combat); 177, 8028 (fights Ghaṭotkaca, etc.), 8033, 8042,

8043 (°ratham), 8044, 8046, 8051; 178ψψ, 8076 (do.), 8078,

8079, 8085, 8101 (yuddhaṃ Bhaimy—Alāyudhayor), 8110 (is

killed by Ghaṭotkaca), 8114; 179, 8117; 180, 8212; 181,

8236.—§ 609 (Śalyap.): IX, 2, 76, 94.—§ 611 (do.): IX,

24, 1299.—§ 789 (Putradarśanap.): XV, 32, 879.

ALĀYUDHA . A giant. He was the brother of Bakāsura.

He fought on the side of the Kauravas. (M.B., Droṇa

Parva, Chapter 95, Stanza 46 and Chapter 176, Stanza 6).

Alāyudha combated with Bhīmasena and Ghaṭotkaca

and was killed by Ghaṭotkaca.