Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c32.23
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c32.23
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v2.c32.23
In many respects they resemble the Vedic Piśācas, though they are of different origin. They are evidently remnants of an ancient demonology and have had incorporated in them old animistic beliefs as representing creatures of the wilds and the forests, some of them based on ethnological features.²¹