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Yaksas

by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

A classic two-part study, published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1928 and 1931, of the yaksha nature spirits of ancient India. Coomaraswamy shows how popular yaksha cults and their iconography shaped early Jain, Buddhist and Hindu religious art.

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