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111 A related type, called tiraścinasattva, is described in the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (67.114ab). 112 Cf. Su.Śā.4.81–98ab; Saṃgītaratnākara 1.2.72–74. See on the sattva typology: K.C. Dube, A. Kumar and S. Dube (1983); S.P. Gupta (1977): 330–340; S. Lienhard (1959): 86–90; G.J. Meulenbeld (1997): 197–199; R.F.G. Müller (1964b); R.K. Sen (1954); M.G. Weiss (1980): 107–108. Compare the descriptions of persons with a surasabhāva, narasabhāva, ndharvapakṛti, yakṣapakṛti, rākṣasasabhāva, piśācapakṛti, narasabhāva, kapipakṛti, ahisabhāva, kharapakṛti, bīḍālasabhāva, and siṃhapakṛti (5.33–44). Compare also the sāttvika, rājasa and tāmasa types of beings in L. Rocher (1980): 66–67. 113 Vibhūti is rendered as greatness (Gulabkunverba; P.V. Sharma) and potentiality (R.K. Sharma and Bhagwan Dash). 114 Cakra says that Dakṣa, one of the Prajāpatis, which, in itself, is not unusual (see A. Holtzmann, 1884, 232). See on the mind-born sons of Brahmā, called the Prajāpatis: G.