ཚའ་མཐའ་མད notes.26

notes.26

26. A similar passage describing the appearance of pretas can be found in the Divyāvadāna, tr. Rotman 2008, 47: “Soon five thousand pretas who looked like scorched wooden pillars, raised up skeletons covered with hair from head to toe, with stomachs like mountains and mouths like pinholes, surrounded Śroṇa Koṭikarṇa” (yāvat pañcamātraiḥ pretasahasrair dagdha­sthūṇāsadriśair asthi­yantravaducchritaih svakeśa­roma­praticchannaiḥ parvatodara­saṃnibaiḥ sūcī­chidropama­mukhair anuparivāritaḥ Śroṇaḥ Koṭīkarṇaḥ. Ed. Cowell & Neil 1886, 7).