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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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That gives them a special affinity for one deva rather than for another.
Towards the river deva were situated, in the first place, the Carnabii.
Similarly, it is typical for bodhisattva statues and those of deva or lesser deities to be polychromed.
Krishna saw that the cowherd men of Vrindavan were preparing for a ceremony to pacify Indra, the deva in charge of rainfall.
And perhaps, while he is about it, he might get killed in a deva gorge.
A deva prasnam conducted in July 1975 revealed that the image had been consecrated by a saint from Tirupati more than one thousand years ago.

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