Banka-Mundi is recorded as a goddess of the hunt and of fertility among the Kondh of eastern India. Hunters call on her for courage and luck and for protection against the dangers of the jungle, believing that merely uttering her name at the forest's edge dispels the fear of wild beasts; she is likewise entreated for fertility and increase. Her worship is associated with the sacred groves of the Odisha hill country. Her documentation rests chiefly on comparative encyclopaedias of world deities rather than on the primary ethnographic record of Macpherson or Elwin, so she is entered here with a correspondingly cautious weighting.