Preta (English spelling)
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In Sanskrit, it means the dead or ancestors. Later it came to mean evil spirits. In Buddhist scriptures it is translated as hungry ghosts, because ancestors are hungry and waiting for offerings to be made to them. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information |
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サンスクリット語で，死者または祖霊の意。のちに転じて悪鬼の意となった。仏典では餓鬼と訳される。祖霊は飢えていて供物が供えられるのを待っているからである。
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