觀音義疏 2.82

English (machine translation) 2.82

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2.82

Kiṃnaras: the heavenly sovereign's string-and-wind music deities, slightly inferior to the gandharvas. Their forms resemble humans but their heads have horns; they are also called doubtful spirits, and also humans-non-humans. Now we do not take 'humans-non-humans' to explain kiṃnaras; this is merely concluding the count of the eight classes.

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觀音義疏 — Classical Chinese