Pañcika
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Pañcika
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Pañcika is a yaksha and consort of Hārītī, with whom he is said to have fathered 500 children. According to the Mahavamsa, Pañcika was the commander-in-chief of the yakṣa army of Vaiśravaṇa and had another 27 yakṣa generals under his orders. Pañcika was often represented holding a lance and a bag of jewels or money together with Hariti in the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, where they illustrated marital love following the intervention of the Buddha. The two figures "were very popular in Gandhar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa%C3%B1cika
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2022-08-01T07:23:09Z
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