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'''Mahoraga''' (Pali ''maha-uraga''; Skt. ''mahorāga''; Tib.[[ལྟོ་འཕྱེ་ཆེན་པོ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''lto 'phye chen po'') — literally “great serpents,” mahoragas are supernatural beings depicted as large, subterranean beings with human torsos and heads and the lower bodies of serpents who, it is said, lie on their sides and rotate in the earth. They belong to the class of local deities or '[[earth lord]]s' and are one of the eight kinds of non-humans who protect the [[dharma]]. Their movements are said to cause earthquakes, and they make up a class of subterranean geomantic spirits whose movement through the seasons and months of the year is deemed significant for construction projects. <ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref> | '''Mahoraga''' (Pali ''maha-uraga''; Skt. ''mahorāga''; Tib.[[ལྟོ་འཕྱེ་ཆེན་པོ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''lto 'phye chen po'') — literally “great serpents,” mahoragas are supernatural beings depicted as large, subterranean beings with human torsos and heads and the lower bodies of serpents who, it is said, lie on their sides and rotate in the earth. | ||
They belong to the class of local deities or '[[earth lord]]s' and are one of the eight kinds of non-humans who protect the [[dharma]]. | |||
Their movements are said to cause earthquakes, and they make up a class of subterranean geomantic spirits whose movement through the seasons and months of the year is deemed significant for construction projects.<ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Latest revision as of 08:08, 24 August 2024
Mahoraga (Pali maha-uraga; Skt. mahorāga; Tib.ལྟོ་འཕྱེ་ཆེན་པོ་, Wyl. lto 'phye chen po) — literally “great serpents,” mahoragas are supernatural beings depicted as large, subterranean beings with human torsos and heads and the lower bodies of serpents who, it is said, lie on their sides and rotate in the earth.
They belong to the class of local deities or 'earth lords' and are one of the eight kinds of non-humans who protect the dharma.
Their movements are said to cause earthquakes, and they make up a class of subterranean geomantic spirits whose movement through the seasons and months of the year is deemed significant for construction projects.[1]
References
- ↑ 84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.