Gurukeśī

Gurukeśī · guru-keśī, “the heavy-haired one”

Gurukeśī is one of the chief daityas who fought for Raktāsura, son of Mahishāsura, against Bhagavatī Durgā. Bhagavān Śrī Kṛshṇa tells this to Yudhishṭhira in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.

Raktāsura pleased Brahmā with fierce tapas, received the rule of the three worlds and took Amarāvatī from Indra. The devas fled to Karachatrāpurī and prayed to the nine Durgās. Bhagavatī appeared in the form of a Kumārī, mounted on a lion, with various weapons in her twenty arms. The daityas came against her, proud through Brahmā’s vara, and Gurukeśī is named second among their chiefs, after Indramārī and before Pralamba. They shone like blazing fire, rode various vāhanas, and rained many weapons on her. In a moment Bhagavatī destroyed countless daityas. She split the heart of Raktāsura with her triśūla, and the daityas who were left fled to save their lives.

Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 61

Sources

• Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 61