The Hindu Temple v1.c4.s3.10

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²⁸ In the last verse of the Vanaparva, LXXXI, of the ‘Mahābhārata’, the sacred site of Kurukṣetra is known as the Uttara Vedi of Brahmā (p. 4). Its four corners bear the names of the resident Yakṣas, Ratna, and so on. The Yakṣas are held to be the resident divinities, also by the Buddhists; see S. Lévi, ‘Catalogue Géographique du Yakṣa dāns la Mahāmāyūrī’ (3-4th century A.D.), ‘Journal Asiatique’, 1915, I. p. 19 ff., ‘Sumaṅgalavilāsinī’, S. B. B. III, Pt. 2, p. 92; cf. P. Mus, ‘Barabuḍur’, op. cit., p. 660. “The geomancers recognise the divinities down to a depth of 30 cubits. Here dwells a Nāga, here a Yakṣa”.