Deva

An deva (Sanskrito: देव, Deva) an buot sabihon kan "makintab," "langitnon," "langitnon na pagkatawo," "divine," "an siisay man na may pagigin mahusay," asin saro man sa Sanskrit na termino na ginamit tanganing iparisa an sarong dios sa Hinduismo.Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary” Etymologically and Philologically Arranged to cognate Indo-European Languages, Motilal Banarsidass, page 492 An Deva sarong terminong maskulino; an katumbas kan sa babayi iyo an devi.

Sa kaenot - enoteng literaturang Vedic, an gabos na lihis sa natural na persona inaapod na Devas asin Asuras.Encyclopaedia Britannica - DevaEncyclopedia of Ancient Deities by Charles Russell Coulter, Patricia Turner. Pg.147George Williams (2008), A Handbook of Hindu Mythology, Oxford University Press, , pages 90, 112Wash Edward Hale (1999), Ásura in Early Vedic Religion, Motilal Barnarsidass, , pages 5-11, 22, 99-102Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary” Etymologically and Philologically Arranged to cognate Indo-European Languages, Motilal Banarsidass, page 121 An mga konsepto asin osipon na yaon sa suanoy na literaturang Indiyan, asin kan huring panahon nin Vedic, an maboot asin lihis sa natural na mga linalang inaapod na Deva-Asuras. Sa mga tekstong post-Vedic Hindu, arog kan Puranas asin Itihasas nin Hinduismo, nagrerepresentar an mga Deva sa karahayan, asin an Asuras sa karatan.Nicholas Gier (2000), Spiritual Titanism: Indian, Chinese, and Western Perspectives, State University of New York Press, , pages 59-76Jeaneane D Fowler (2012), The Bhagavad Gita, Sussex Academic Press, , pages 253-262 Sa nagkapirang libro nin literatura kan edad media, inaapod man an Devas na Suras asin kabaliktaran kan arog man kaiyan kamakapangyarihan alagad half-brothers, na inaapod na Asuras.Encyclopædia Britannica

An Devas, kaiba an Asuras, Yakshas (mga espiritu nin naturalesa), asin Rakshasas (ghoulish ogres/demons), kabtang kan mitolohiyang Indiyan, asin Devas na itinatampok sa dakol na kosmolohikong teoriya sa Hinduismo.Don Handelman (2013), One God, Two Goddesses, Three Studies of South Indian Cosmology, Brill Academic, , pages 23-29Wendy Doniger (1988), Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism, Manchester University Press, , page 67

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