The danger from or fear of (1) drowning, (2) thieves, (3) lions, (4) snakes, (5) fire, (6) threatening spirits, (7) imprisonment, and (8) elephants.

Dangers posed by lions, elephants, fire, snakes, drowning, bondage, thieves, and demons.

Listed in Tārā Who Protects from the Eight Dangers as lions, elephants, fire, snakes, robbers, waters, infectious diseases, and demons. A more common enumeration gives “imprisonment” rather than “infectious diseases.”

Fear of lions, elephants, fire, snakes, drowning, bondage, thieves, and demons.

The eight are the fear of (1) drowning, (2) thieves, (3) lions, (4) snakes, (5) fire, (6) demons, (7) imprisonment, and (8) elephants. They are also sometimes referred to as the eight unbearable (dāruṇa, mi bzad pa) fears.

Lions, elephants, fire, snakes, thieves, rivers, imprisonment, and demons.