Shloka 52
यक्षाणां राक्षसानां च पिशाचानां तथैव च
yakṣāṇāṃ rākṣasānāṃ ca piśācānāṃ tathaiva ca
“Of the Yakṣas, the Rākṣasas, and likewise of the Piśācas as well …” (Vāyu continues, invoking classes of non-human beings—often associated with guardianship, violence, and haunting—to show that his statement ranges across formidable supernatural orders, not merely human actors.)
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The line broadens the moral and narrative horizon: Vāyu’s point is meant to apply across powerful non-human classes as well, suggesting that dharma and consequence are not confined to human society but operate through a wider cosmic ecology of beings.
Vāyudeva is speaking and enumerates categories of supernatural beings—Yakṣas, Rākṣasas, and Piśācas—setting up or continuing a statement that concerns them collectively (the verse is syntactically incomplete on its own and expects continuation in the next pāda/verse).