Definition of "devas" [devas]

• Plural form of deva. (noun)

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• "My family and I were watching television and we discovered an interesting fact that amongst us Indians Gods are called devas and demons are called asuras."
• "This offers an opportunity for the discussion of the question whether also other classes of individual souls, such as devas, are qualified for knowledge of Brahman."
• "But the uniform tendency of all poets and Rishis alike was to seek, beyond all these gods, one unbeginning, unending, and all comprehensive Being, from whom these "devas" emerged, and into whom they must return."