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  • 一位夜叉,古代諸王在迦提迦節盛裝打扮後立於湖邊,在其(雕像)前向四方射箭以為儀式。

  • 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.

  • 般度迦婆耶所禮敬的一位夜叉,獲賜阿婆耶水庫下游的居所,節慶之日更得坐於王側;《大史》稱其為曾救王一命的牧人質多的化身,但更可能即是前一位同名夜叉。

  • 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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