Dynasties Descended From KaSyapd - Verse 274

On seeing these types of Pisacas deficient in intellect and in a dejected condition among his progeny, Brahma sympathetically granted them the boons of vanishing and assuming forms as they pleased. 275*278. He permitted them to move about at the time of the two junctions (viz. dawn and dusk) . (I shall mention) their abodes and way of maintaining themselves. Houses in *dhamani-matak&bt but Bd. P. V. 392 reads Bkramari-sannibh&Ji ‘like blackbees’. 548 Vayu Pur&na ruins, vacant or with very few people or completely dilapidated are their abodes. They live in those houses also where people do not follow rules of good conduct, which are not scrubbed and cleaned properly or not whitewashed or painted well. They live in the highways, sidelanes, kitchen gardens, quadrangles, portals, attics, paths of exit, sidewalks, pathways, rivers, holy centres, trees in the monasteries, trunk roads (these are assigned as their abodes). Pi£acas occupy all these spots.