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Keywords: Hungry, Ghost, Sanskrit, Thirst, Hunger

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spirit of a dead person, wandering spirits, ghosts.

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The Sanskrit word usually translated as hungry ghost, one of the six states of existence.

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(Sanskrit) Hungry spirit, a non-human being who experiences intense suffering of hunger, thirst, heat and cold.

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(Skt.): Hungry ghost. A being obsessed by ATTACHMENT, living in the preta-realm within DESIRE REALM, mainly suffering from lack of food, drink and shelter.

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Hungry ghost, or spirit. The preta realm is one of the three lower realms of cyclic existence.

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Preta (Sanskrit) or Peta (PÄli), Tibetan yi.dvags, is the name for a type of supernatural being described in Buddhist, Hindu and Jain texts that undergoes more than human suffering, particularly an extreme degree of hunger and thirst.

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