(L.). The astral shell of a human being in kāma-loka. The term is used by Lucretius in his De Rerum Natura (”On the Nature of Things”). The plural, simulacra, is also called eidolons, umbras, larvae, bhūtas or bhoots, spooks, reliquiae, shades, or phantoms.

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