Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.s2.2
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.s2.2
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Rājā, literally, the resplendent one, was the title of Yaksha; their king Kubera being called Rāja-rāja or Mahārāja, viz. the big Yaksha. The Buddhist texts often refer to the four Mahārājika Gods (chattāro mahārājāno) of whom Vaiśravaṇa, king of the Yakshas, was chief of the North, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, king of the Gandharvas, of the East, Virūḍhaka, king of the Kumbhāṇḍas (the ithyphallic dwarf), of the South, and Virūpāksha, king of the Nāgas, of the West; all the four in reality receiving homage as Mahā-Rāja Gods, who are labelled as Yaksha on the Bharhut railing.