... Petavatthu 20

[fiachra.harte]

@Snowbird

I think this would usually be translated as “the realm of Yama.” Otherwise it sounds to me like Yama is the name of the realm.

Thank you @Snowbird for taking an interest in this and for your feedback. We’ve made this change.

@Snowbird

Leaving it untranslated could make it seem like the ghost changed from a peta to a yakkha. And because in some (non EBT) traditions there is the idea that merit shared can get beings out of the ghost realm, it might confuse things.

That is interesting, but I’m just wondering: what do you think of this in relation our translation of Petavatthu 18, where a Peta seems to unambiguously changes form and leave the peta realm as direct result of shared merit?