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  • A yakkha before whose presumed statue ancient kings, arrayed in splendour at the Kattika Festival, would stand by the lakeshore and shoot arrows to the four quarters.

  • A yakkha whom Paṇḍukābhaya honoured with a settlement below the Abhaya reservoir and a seat beside him on festival days, said in the Mahāvaṃsa to be an incarnation of the herdsman Citta who once saved the king’s life, though probably identical with the yakkha Cittarāja (1).

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