Baka
Baka
Baka is a name used for more than one being in the Purāṇas and Itihāsas. Each is listed below with where it is told; choose the one you are looking for.
People
- Bakāsura: a mighty rākshasa who took the form of a white crane as large as a mountain in Madhuvana and swallowed Śrī Kṛshṇa, Balarāma and the gopa boys; in his former birth he was the gandharva Suhotra. Brahma Vaivarta Purāṇa, Śrī Kṛshṇa Janma Khaṇḍa, Chapters 13, 16, 22
- Baka: a powerful rākshasa of a forest near the town of Ekacakrā who made the townspeople send him a cartload of food and the man who drove it, until Bhīma killed him. Mahābhārata, Ādi Parva
- Baka (the Crane): the crane remembered in the Brahma Purāṇa for his battle with Āḍi long ago; he is not Baka the rākshasa. Brahma Purāṇa, Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapter 55