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What is a deva?

What is a deva? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A god in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism.
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Similarly, it is typical for bodhisattva statues and those of deva or lesser deities to be polychromed.
This last stage has completed our circle and brought us again to the deva.
Towards the river deva were situated, in the first place, the Carnabii.
Krishna saw that the cowherd men of Vrindavan were preparing for a ceremony to pacify Indra, the deva in charge of rainfall.
And yet we know that there never was such a deva, or god, or such a thing as Varuna.
And perhaps, while he is about it, he might get killed in a deva gorge.

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