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piśāca

piśācá m. (ifc. f(A). ) N. of a class of demons (possibly so called either from their fondness for flesh [piśa for piśita] or from their yellowish appearance; they were perhaps originally a personification of the ignis fatuus; they are mentioned in the Veda along with Asuras and Rākṣasas See also, [Mn. xii, 44]; in later times they are the children of Krodhā cf. [IW. 276])

a fiend, ogre, demon, imp, malevolent or devilish being, [AV.] &c. &c. (ifc. ‘a devil of a -’, [Kād.])

N. of a Rakṣas, [R.]