gnod sbyin

[translation-san] {C,L} yakṣa

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} demons in the earth, air, or lower heavens

[comments] these demons are malignant, violent, and devourerers of human flesh; yakṣas are also the eight attendanats of Kuvera (or Vaiśravaṇa), the god of wealth; those on earth bestow wealth, those in the empyrean realms houses and carriages; those in the lower heavens guard the moat and gates of the heavenly city

Jeffrey Hopkins' Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary