Raksha the Demon is a fictional character

Fictional character

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 featured in Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

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's Mowgli

Mowgli

Mowgli is a fictional character from India who originally appeared in Rudyard Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" and then went on to become the most prominent and memorable character in his fantasies, The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book , which also featured stories about other...

 stories, collected in The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book

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and The Second Jungle Book

The Second Jungle Book

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. She is a female Indian Wolf

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, member of the Seeonee pack, who while suckling her own cubs decides also to adopt a human "cub" that her mate Father Wolf has found wandering in the jungle, naming him "Mowgli" (which means "frog

Frog

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" in the Speech of the Jungle) because of his hairlessness.

Defying the tiger

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 Shere Khan

Shere Khan

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, who is determined to eat the man-cub, she reveals that her name is Raksha

Raksha

In Hindu mythology, a Rakshas is a kind of evil demon.-Ramayana:According to the Ramayana, the Raksha people were the mythical inhabitants of Sri Lanka who were said to have lived among the Naga, Yakkha, and Deva, and governed Sri Lanka in 2370 BCE...

 (which means "protection

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") because of her ferocity as a fighter, and she will fight to the death for any of her cubs, natural or adopted.

Raksha does not play a large role in the Mowgli stories, but occasionally offers her adopted son moral support.

Disney

Raksha appears briefly at the beginning of Disney

Walt Disney Pictures

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's The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book (1967 film)

The Jungle Book is a 1967 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Released on October 18, 1967, it is the 19th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. It was inspired by the stories about the feral child Mowgli from the book of the same name by...

. Bagheera

Bagheera

Bagheera the black-toned Indian Leopard is an animal fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book...

 discovers young Mowgli in the jungle, and takes it to Raksha, who has just had cubs. She raises him along with her own cubs and Mowgli soon becomes 10 years later well acquainted with jungle life.

In other media

• In the anime
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   Jungle Book Shonen Mowgli
  Jungle Book Shonen Mowgli
  is an anime adaption of Rudyard Kipling's original collection of stories, The Jungle Book. It aired in 1989, and consists of a total of 52 episodes.-Music:...
  
  , Raksha appears like in the book, except she is renamed Luri and has a more important role in the storyline, and also, becomes the eventual leader of the wolf pack.
• Raksha also appears in the computer animated series The Jungle Book (TV series)
  The Jungle Book (TV series)
  The Jungle Book is a 2010 3D CGI animated TV series by DQ Entertainment in association with ZDF Enterprises, Moonscoop, Disney Channel and Universal Studios....
  
  as a white wolf. She is voiced by Prudence Alcott.