Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.427

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MANIBHADRA III.
1) General information. A Yakṣa. He was a deity of merchants and travellers. (Śloka 130, Chapter 64, Vana Parva).
2) Other details.
(i) He stays in the court of Kubera. (Śloka 15, Chapter 10, Sabhā Parva).
(ii) Once this Yakṣa on the request of a cloud named Kuṇḍadhāra gave a boon to a brahmin. (Śloka 21, Chapter 171, Śanti Parva).
(iii) The sage Aṣṭāvakra once welcomed this Yakṣa. (Śloka 33, Chapter 19, Anuśāsana Parva).
(iv) When Arjuna went to Marutta to bring his wealth Arjuna worshipped this Yakṣa and the Yakṣa blessed him. (Śloka 7, Chapter 65, Aśvamedha Parva).