[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Protective spells and dhāraṇī-sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani) › [The Five Protections](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa) › [Mahāsāhasrapramardanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahasahasrapramardani) › [སྟོང་ཆེན་མོ་རབ་ཏུ་འཇོམས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahasahasrapramardani*bo) › [Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahasahasrapramardani*bo~en-84000) › intro.7 # སྟང་ཆན་མ་རབ་ཏ་འཇམས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད intro.7 Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm intro.7 - **Language:** English ### [intro.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahasahasrapramardani*bo~en-84000.intro.7) The text primarily addresses illnesses caused by spirit entities, collectively referred to as graha or bhūta throughout the text, which are thought to devour the vitality of men, women, children, and animals. The text describes these graha or bhūta as belonging to four different subspecies of beings, each of which is presided over by one of the four great kings, guardians of the world, who hold spiritual sovereignty over the territories and resident spirit beings present throughout the four cardinal directions. According to the cosmology presented in the text, the great king Kubera (who is also called Vaiśravaṇa in some passages) dwells in the north, where he presides over the yakṣa variety of graha. The great king Dhṛtarāṣṭra dwells in the east, where he reigns over the gandharva grahas. The great king Virūḍhaka rules in the south, where his entourage consists of kumbhāṇḍa grahas. And the great king Virūpākṣa reigns in the west, where his entourage is nāga grahas. Each group of grahas, moreover, is responsible for a particular category of illness, with its own unique set of physical symptoms. - [Previous: intro.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahasahasrapramardani*bo~en-84000.intro.6) - [Next: intro.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahasahasrapramardani*bo~en-84000.intro.8) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahasahasrapramardani*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahasahasrapramardani*bo~en-84000.intro.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahasahasrapramardani*bo~en-84000.intro.7) · Pramāṇa