བྱིས་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་གདོན། | Glossary of Terms
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བྱིས་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་གདོན།
- byis pa rnams kyi gdon
- bālagraha
- bālagrahaḥ
- Term
- bālagraha
- བྱིས་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་གདོན།
- byis pa rnams kyi gdon
- bālagraha
Literally “child snatchers,” the bālagrahaḥ are an important class of demonic being in both Āyurvedic literature and across both popular and institutional religious communities in South Asia and the broader South Asian cultural world.
- seizers that possess children
- བྱིས་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་གདོན།
- byis pa rnams kyi gdon
- bālagrahaḥ
Literally “child snatchers,” the bālagrahaḥ are an important class of demonic being in both Āyurvedic literature and across both popular and institutional religious communities in South Asia and the broader South Asian cultural world.