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Pañcika () is a yaksha and consort of Hariti, with whom he is said to have fathered 500 children.
According to the Mahavamsa, Pañcika was the commander-in-chief of the Yaksha 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, The gods of northern Buddhism: their history and iconography, Alice Getty, Courier Dover Publications, 1988, p. 157, at Google Books where they illustrated marital love following the intervention of the Gautama Buddha. The two figures "were very popular in Gandhara in the latter part of the second century, and their statues are many."Sir John Marshall, The Buddhist Art of Gandhara, New Delhi: Oriental Books Reprint Corporation, 1980, p, 104. When depicted holding a spear, he also signals his role as the chief of the Yakṣas. The iconography of Pancika was eventually merged with that of Vaiśravaṇa..
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