Raktavīja was an
asura (loosely translated as demon) who fought together with Shumbha and Nishumbha against
Durga and
Kali or
Chamunda. Raktavija had a boon that whenever a drop of his blood fell on the ground, a duplicate raktavija would be born at that spot (rakta=blood, vīja=seed; this is a
bahuvrihi or
exocentric compound, "he for whom each drop of blood is a seed"). In South Indian texts, the name is sometimes written raktabhija, and in the East, it is sometimes written raktabIj.
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