asura

  1. Noun.  (Hinduism) Deities among the Hindu dharma. Considered to be a group of power-seeking deities, sometimes referred to as devas.
  2. Noun.  (Buddhism) The lowest class of deities and demigods of the Kāmadhātu.
  3. Noun.  (alternative spelling of, Asura) .

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