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yaksha
[ yok-shah ]
noun
- any of a class of nature spirits or deities who guard places or treasure: most are considered benevolent, but some are thought to be capricious, mischievous, or malicious.
- a statue depicting such a spirit, often placed guarding another deity or flanking a temple gate.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of yaksha1
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Example Sentences
Art thou a female Yaksha, or a female Rakshasa, or a celestial damsel?
She helps to kill Bhishma in the great war, having changed her sex with a Yaksha.
Then the Yaksha revealed himself in the form of Dharma, god of wisdom and justice, for behold!
Arjuna, being thus admonished, went forth on the tenth day with Sikhandin, born a woman and made a male by a Yaksha.
Then the Bodhisattva looking at the Yaksha spoke to him mild words expressive of his adherence to the virtue of forbearance.
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