Paiśāca

Paiśāca

Paiśāca is a name used for more than one place and people in the Purāṇas and Itihāsas. Each is listed below with where it is told; choose the one you are looking for.

People

• Paiśācas (Line of Vāpyakarmā’s Foes): the Paiśācas, foes of King Vāpyakarmā of the Śukla line, who conquered them and then celebrated the Kṛshṇotsava. Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 4, Chapter 3

Places

• Paiśāca Tīrtha (Añjanā): the tīrtha, also called Añjana Tīrtha, on the southern bank of the Gautamī beside Brahmagiri, where the apsarās Añjanā and Adrikā were freed from Indra‘s śāpa when their sons Hanūmān and Adri bathed them in the river. Brahma Purāṇa, Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapter 14
• Paiśāca Tīrtha (Ajīgarti): the tīrtha on the northern bank of the Gautamī where Śunaḥśepa bathed and offered tarpaṇa for his father Ajīgarti, who was freed from the state of a piśāca and rose to the abode of Vishṇu. Brahma Purāṇa, Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapter 80