beingYakshaBeingsNature guardian spirit at tree and crossroad. Not naga, and not gandharva.Vedic traditionYaksha appears in Vedic tradition.The Ṛgveda names yakṣas among mysterious nonhuman beings in hymn speech. A named Vedic class in that corpus, not a later Kubera-court dump alone and not apsara.from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much olderappears in · sourced · documentedsourcesThe Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.