Khanā (Wife of Kaśyapa)
Khanā
Khanā is one of the wives of Kaśyapa Prajāpati, and the mother of the yakshas and the rākshasas. She is one of the thirteen daughters whom Daksha Prajāpati gave to Kaśyapa.
Her place among the wives of Kaśyapa
In the Brahma Purāṇa, Lomaharshaṇa tells the munis of the creation that came from the daughters of Daksha. Of his daughters, Daksha gave ten to Dharma, thirteen to Kaśyapa and twenty-seven to Soma. The wives of Kaśyapa Prajāpati are named in this order: Aditi, Diti, Danu, Arishṭā, Surasā, Khanā, Surabhi, Vinatā, Tāmrā, Krodhavaśā, Irā, Kadru and Muni. The Purāṇa says they belong to the former manvantara.
Her offspring
Each wife of Kaśyapa bore her own kind of beings. Surabhi bore cows and buffaloes, Irā bore trees, creepers and the kinds of grass, Muni bore the apsarases, and Arishṭā bore the siddhas and the gandharvas. Khanā bore the yakshas and the rākshasas. All this offspring, moving and unmoving, belongs to Kaśyapa, and their grandsons and great-grandsons were born in thousands. The Purāṇa names this the creation of the Svārocisha manvantara.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 3
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 3