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Vish Kanya / Vish-mai-kanyaka / Vish-mai-kanya / Vish-agh-ana
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Poison Girl
I am not watching the show. Though, came to know, the makers have introduced a Vishkanya. I had collected some data on them, earlier. Thought to post here. Based on different ancient sources, the following are classified into the category of VishKanyas.
1. In ordinary sense of the word, it means a girl who does harm deceitfully in some way or other to another person.
2. She is one born under an inauspicious configuration or conjugation of planets. So she does harm to one who marries her.
3. A girl, who is in some way or other so much poisoned or infected with a disease that she is likely to convey her poison or infectious disease to the person who cohabits with her or comes into some form of close contact with her, and to bring about his death. A woman infected with a venereal disease is a poison-girl of this kind.
4. A girl who has actually saturated her body with gradual doses of poison, and who, therefore, is in a state likely to convey the poison of her body, so saturated, to another person who comes into contact with her.
This kind of Vish Kanya was sent to Alexander, by an Indian Queen. This incident is mentioned in the Shah-nama of Firdausi.
