Demons.

Arunasura: a demon who attained the boon from Lord Brahma.

Bhandāsura: a demon who was created from the ashes of Kamadeva by Chitrakarma.

Chedipe: a witch-vampire.

Churel / Charail / Churreyl / Chudail / Chudel / Chuṛail / Cuḍail / Cuḍel: resembles a woman and typically described as a ghost of an unpurified living thing. Also called a tree spirit. According to legend, a woman who dies during childbirth or pregnancy or from suffering from her in-laws will come back as a churel for revenge.

Dakini: depicted as flesh-eating demonesses in the train of Kali.

Dārukā: a forest goddess, whose husband was a demon named Daruk. She was originally a demoness who becomes a devi (goddess) after receiving Parvati's blessings.

Durgamasur: a demon born to demon Ruru.

Durukti: the demonic personification of misery, grief, depression, and suffering.

Kali: the personification of Adharma and reigning lord of the Kali Yuga. Also the nemesis of Kalki, the tenth and final avatar of Vishnu.

Mahishi: a she-buffalo demoness, sister of the Mahishasura, her deceased brother.

Pishacha: flesh-eating demons.

Susna: a demon that is often described as having a snake-like form with horns.

Vinayakas: a group of four demons who created obstacles and difficulties.

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Ghosts

Bhoot / Bhuta: a supernatural creature that is usually the ghost of a deceased person. 

Churel / Charail / Churreyl / Chudail / Chudel / Chuṛail / Cuḍail / Cuḍel: resembles a woman and typically described as a ghost of an unpurified living thing. Also called a tree spirit. According to legend, a woman who dies during childbirth or pregnancy or from suffering from her in-laws will come back as a churel for revenge.

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Spirits.

Churel / Charail / Churreyl / Chudail / Chudel / Chuṛail / Cuḍail / Cuḍel: resembles a woman and typically described as a ghost of an unpurified living thing. Also called a tree spirit. According to legend, a woman who dies during childbirth or pregnancy or from suffering from her in-laws will come back as a churel for revenge.

Dasa

Vetala: an evil spirit who haunts cemeteries and takes demonic possession of corpses.

Rakshasas: a race of anthropomorphic spirits. Many are malevolent, but some are benevolent protectors of Dharma.

Acalā: one of the Ten Rakshasis of the Lotus Sutra.

Akampana: one of Sumālī's ten sons.

Akṣayakumāra: one of Rāvaṇa's seven sons.

Alambasa

Alambuṣa

Alāyudha

Alumvusha

Amarāri

Aṅkūra: one of Kumbha's sons.

Anthkashur: the great rakshas of ravana shena.

Aśaniprabha

Atikāya: one of Rāvaṇa's seven sons.

Bāka: Bakāsura's attendant.

Bakāsura

Balāka

Vibhīṣaṇa

Bhāsakarṇa: one of Sumālī's ten sons.

Bhīma

Bhīmaratha

Bhīṣaṇa

Bhīṣma

Bhūtagrasani: one of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra.

Brahmāpeta: dwells in the sun during the month of Māgha (Viṣṇu Purāṇa) or Iṣa (Bhāgavata Purāṇa).

Brahmarakshasas: demon behemoth titans. They are the spirit of a Brahmin, a dead scholar of high birth, who did evil things in life or has misused their knowledge. So they suffers as a Brahma Rakshasa after their death.

Budha: dwells in the sun during the month of Āṣādha or Śukra (Viṣṇu Purāṇa). Replaces Sahajanya from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa.

Cāpa: dwells in the sun during the month of Kārttika (Viṣṇu Purāṇa). Replaces Varcā from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa.

Chantotkania

Daṇḍa: one of Sumālī's ten sons.

DarukaDevāntaka: one of Rāvaṇa's seven sons.

Dhūmrāksa: one of Sumālī's ten sons.

Dhoomralochana

Durdama: a gandharva cursed by Vasiṣṭha to be a rakshasa for seventeen years.

DurgamDūṣaṇa

EkajaṭāElapatra: dwells in the sun during the month of Srāvaṇa or Nabhas (Viṣṇu Purāṇa). Replaces Varya from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa.

Ghaṭotkaca: a half-rakshasa from the Mahābhārata.

Hari: one of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra.

Harikeśi: one of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra.

Haripiṅgale: one of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra.

Harīti: one of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra.

Heti: dwells in the sun during the month of Madhu (Bhāgavata Purāṇa) or Chaitra (Viṣṇu Purāṇa).

Hidimba

Hiḍimbī

Ilvala

Indrajit: one of Rāvaṇa's seven sons. Another name of Meghanāda.

Jambūmālin

Jarā: a rakshasi also known as Barmata or Bandi.

Jarāsandha

Jaṭāsura

Jāṭāsuri: another name for Alaṁbuṣa.

Kabandha: a gandharva named Vishvavasu or Danu cursed by Indra or the sage Ashtavakra.

Kaikasī: one of Sumālī's four daughters, Rāvaṇa's mother.

Kālakāmukha: one of Sumālī's ten sons.

Kālanemi: Rāvaṇa's uncle.

Kālapāśe: one of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra.

Kālaśodari: one of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra.

Kāli: one of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra.

Kalmāṣapāda: a king of the Ikshvaku dynasty cursed by the sage Vashishtha.

Kamalākṣi: one of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra.

Kamsa

Karāli: one of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra.

Keśinī: one of the Ten Rakshasis of the Lotus Sutra.

Khara

Kirmīra

Kumbha

Kumbhakarṇa: one of Rāvaṇa's brothers.

Kumbhāṇḍi: one of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra.

Kumbhīnadī: one of Sumālī's four daughters.

Kuntī: one of the Ten Rakshasis of the Lotus Sutra.

Kūṭadantī: one of the Ten Rakshasis of the Lotus Sutra.

Lambā: one of the Ten Rakshasis of the Lotus Sutra.

Laṃbe: one of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra.

Lavanasura: a rakshasa that was killed by Shatrughna, the youngest brother of Rama.

Makhāpeta: dwells in the sun during the month of Ūrja (Bhāgavata Purāṇa). Replaces Yajñāpeta from the Viṣṇu Purāṇa.

Makuṭadantī: one of the Ten Rakshasis of the Lotus Sutra.

Mālādhārī: one of the Ten Rakshasis of the Lotus Sutra.

Mālī: Sumālī's younger brother.

Mālyavant 

Mālyavāna: Rāvaṇa's Chief Royal Adviser and Sumālī's elder brother.

Mandodari

Māra: the prime antagonist in Buddhism, also known to be an asura or a deva.

Mārīca: ally of Rāvaṇa, killed by Rāma.

Malini

Meghanāda: another name of Indrajit.

Nairṛti: guardian of the southwestern direction.

Narāntaka: one of Rāvaṇa's seven sons.

Nirṛtī: mother of the rakshasas and guardian of the southwestern direction.

Nikumbha: one of Rāvaṇa's generals who led the rakshasas against the host of monkeys and was slain.

Nikumbhilā

Pauruṣeya: dwells in the sun during the month of Śukra (Bhāgavata Purāṇa) or Jyēṣṭha or Śuci (Viṣṇu Purāṇa).

Prākvāta: one of Sumālī's ten sons.

Prahasta (Rāvaṇa's son): one of Rāvaṇa's seven sons.

Prahasta: one of Sumālī's ten sons.

Praheti: dwells in the sun during the month of Mādhava (Bhāgavata Purāṇa) or Vaiśākha (Viṣṇu Purāṇa).

Pralaṃbe: one of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra.

Puṣpadantī: one of the Ten Rakshasis of the Lotus Sutra

Puṣpotkaṭā: one of Sumālī's four daughtersRāvaṇa.

Sahajanya: dwells in the sun during the month of Śuci (Bhāgavata Purāṇa). Replaces Budha from the Viṣṇu Purāṇa.

Sāṃhrāda: one of Sumālī's ten sons.

Śaṃkhini: one of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra.

Sarvasattvojohārī: one of the Ten Rakshasis of the Lotus Sutra.

Śikhaṇḍī

Sinhikha

Śūrpaṇakhā: Rāvaṇa's sister.

Sphūrja: dwells in the sun during the month of Pauṣa (Viṣṇu Purāṇa) or Puṣya (Bhāgavata Purāṇa).

Śrīmati: one of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra.

Subāhu: Tāṛakā's son.

Sukeśa: Sumālī's father.

Sumālī: Rāvaṇa's maternal grandfather.

Supārśvā: one of Sumālī's ten sonssamudri rakshasa - asura who lived in the underground water or sea/ocean.

Tāṛakā

Trijaṭā

Triśira: one of Rāvaṇa's seven sons.

Varcā: dwells in the sun during the month of Tapasya (Bhāgavata Purāṇa). Replaces Cāpa from the Viṣṇu Purāṇa.

Varya: dwells in the sun during the month of Nabhas (Bhāgavata Purāṇa). Replaces Elapatra from the Viṣṇu Purāṇa.

Vāta: dwells in the sun during the month of Āśvin (Viṣṇu Purāṇa) or Tapas (Bhāgavata Purāṇa).

Vekā: one of Sumālī's four daughters.

Vikaṭa: one of Sumālī's ten sons.

Vātāpi

Vibhīṣaṇa: Rāvaṇa's younger brother.

Vidyucchatru: dwells in the sun during the month of Sahas (Bhāgavata Purāṇa). Replaces Vidyut from the Viṣṇu Purāṇa.

Vidyut: dwells in the sun during the month of Mārgaśīrṣa (Viṣṇu Purāṇa). Replaces Vidyucchatru from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa.

Vilambā: one of the Ten Rakshasis of the Lotus Sutra.

Virādha

Vyāghra: dwells in the sun during the month of Bhādrapada (Viṣṇu Purāṇa) or Nabhasya (Bhāgavata Purāṇa).

Yajñāpeta: dwells in the sun during the month of Phālguna (Viṣṇu Purāṇa). Replaces Makhāpeta from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa.

Yamadūti: one of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra.

Yamarākṣasi: one of the seventeen rakshasis invoked at the start of the Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Sūtra

The Ten Rakshasas: a group of demonesses who take on the role of tutelary deities in Mahayana Buddhism. They have also been recognized as the attendants of the bodhisattva Samanhtabhadra. They are said to be votaries of those who uphold the Lotus Sutra.

Acalā: is like a crown of sutras. She holds a water jar in her left hand and a lotus petal in her right hand. The name of her avatar is Mañjuśrī.

Keśinī: has the form of a child with long locks of hair. She holds a copper bracelet in her right hand. The name of her avatar is Samantabhadra.

Kuntī: has the form of a woman crying from overhead. She wears crimson and blue garments and has a single-pronged vajra in her left hand. She carries a box of sutras or an incense burners in some artwork. The name of her avatar is Maltreya.

Kūṭadantī: has the form of an apsara (type of spirit of clouds and water) maiden. She wears blue garments and is known for her prominent look, which includes fearsome teeth. The name of her avatar is Viśuddhacāritra.

Lambā: has the form of yaksa with blue garments and a flesh tone face. She holds a vajra mallet which she uses to strike her right shoulder. She hold a mala in her left hand. The name of her avatar is Viśiṣṭacāritra.

Makuṭadantī: has the form of a goddess. She has black teeth, which she conceals. She wields a trident in her right hand and a flask in her left hand. The name of her avatar is Śākyamuni.

Mālādhāri: has the form that looks like Lakshmi. She wears gold garments and wields a garland of precious stones in both hands. The name of her avatar is Avalokiteśvara.

Puṣpadantī: has the form of a nun. She wears purple garments and her teeth are described like the petals of a flower. She holds a bouquet of flowers in her right hand and a flower dish in her left hand. The name of her avatar is Supratiṣṭhitacāritra.

Sarvasattvojohārī: has the form of a consort of Brahmā or Śakra. She wears armor and emerges from the crown of a horse's head. She wields a vajra in her right hand and a trident in her left hand. She typically wears clothes that are a mixture of colors. The name of her avatar is Prabhūtaratna.

Vilambā: has the form of a full moon, akin to a dragon king. She wears green garments and her face is white. She controls the wind and clouds with her right hand and holds a mala in her left hand. The name of her avatar is Anantacāritra.

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