| Krishna saw that the cowherd men of Vrindavan were preparing for a ceremony to pacify Indra, the deva in charge of rainfall. |
| Such lists ordinarily rank statues and paintings in a canonical hierarchy, beginning with icons of the Buddha class, followed by bodhisattva, deva, and other lesser deities. |
| Similarly, it is typical for bodhisattva statues and those of deva or lesser deities to be polychromed. |
| That gives them a special affinity for one deva rather than for another. |
| And yet we know that there never was such a deva, or god, or such a thing as Varuna. |
| Thought he was going to stop and see if they could salve deva. |
