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¹ cf., already De Harlez, Avesta, Paris, 1881, p. CXXXII. RV., VII, 104, 16 puts as parallel ones the person who has called a singer a yātudhāna and the person who has declared himself to be pure, although being a rakṣāsa, this seems to assimilate the yātudhānas and the rakṣās. In the classical Sanskrit literature, these two types of beings are closely related; for example the Rāmāyaṇa (Bomb., VII, 59, 15) makes them descend simultaneously of the Yadus and the rakṣasa (or rākṣasas); they can play a role in the production of diseases to which we will allude later.