Christopher Byassee
Staff Reporter
A horrendous demon with a bottomless appetite for human flesh, Bakasura (The Great Devourer) is a nightmare come to life. After committing countless atrocities, Bakasura has demonstrated no end to his depravity, no limit to his brutality, no sating his desire to slump human meat, crunch bone, and guzzle hot blood. So many are his vile victories over mankind that they cannot be relayed here, yet it is defeated at the hands of a man that is worth the telling.
According to the Hindu epic, the Mahabharata, the famous Pandava brothers were traveling in exile with their mother, Kunti when they came to the village Ekachakra. Disguised as brahmins, they sought alms from the villages in order to sustain themselves. They soon learned that a demon, Bakasura, was living outside the village, devouring the people as they passed through the woods. The chief went to the demon and begged that the feasting stop. In return, a cart of food would be sent to Bakasura (The Great Devourer) each day. Bakasura (The Great Devourer) consumed not only the provisions but the person that brought the cart as well.
After hearing this tale from a weeping woman whose son would bear the cart on the morrow, Kunti declared that her son Bhima, who possessed impossible strength and had slain demons before, would take the cart instead, as repayment to the kindness the villagers had shown their family. Hunger, however, is a demon that can not be defeated and, inevitably, Bakasura’s disgusting rumble will rise again, now more ravenous than ever and ready to feed.
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