By Jit Majumdar
Sometimes transliterated as: Dusana, DUsana, Duushana
- pollution; corruption
- vice; crime
- a rākşasa warrior in the army of Rāvana (V. Rām.); a daitya slain by Śiva (Ś. Pur.); (fem: duşaņā): the wife of Bhavana and the mother of Tvāşţŗ (Bg. Pur.).