The great illusion had indeed devoured them, before whose spirits the Devasthemselves once were worshippers.
These are the heroes for whose returning the earth puts forth her signal fires, and the Devas sing their hymns of welcome.
I bowed over it in awe; and I heard Varunna say, "The earth indeed puts forth her signal fires, and the Devas sing their hymn.
Then the Rishis and Devas who dwelt on earth exclaimed with great joy: 'This day Buddha is born for the good of men, to dispel the darkness of their ignorance.
They took Mount Mandara for a churning stick, and wrapping the great serpent Sesha round it for a rope, they made the mountain spin round to and fro, the Devas pulling at the serpent's tail, and the Asuras at its head.
The Devas offered him sweet dew, but he rejected it, and took but a grain of millet a day.
But the Devas thought: "This victory is ours, this glory is ours.
XXI Yama replied: Even the Devas (Bright Ones) of old doubted regarding this.
XXII Nachiketas said: O Death, thou sayest that even the Devas had doubts about this, and that it is not easy to know.
The teaching as regards the Devas was that Brahman is the only Doer.
The lesson of the parable of the Devas and Brahman is that there is no real power, no real doer except God.
IX From whence the sun rises, and whither it goes at setting, upon That all the Devas depend.
Through that victory of the Brahman, the Devas became elated.
Indra, the God of the glittering firmament, Father of the Devas or Powers, 602-m.
He at once granted their request, and prepared to proceed on foot; but two Devas descended from heaven in the form of golden stags and harnessed themselves to the chariot.
Her husband's great act of renunciation having by this time been fully accomplished, the three beasts, who were three Devas in disguise, no longer hindered her progress, but departed into the jungle.
You saw how behind all the Devas or gods, the authors of the Upanishads discovered the Âtman or Self.
We also find some purely mythological hymns, in which theDevas or gods have assumed nearly as much dramatic personality as in the Homeric hymns.
Who came first and who came after it is difficult to say; but as soon as the three were placed side by side, the Devas certainly stood the highest, then followed the Pitris, and last came the mortals.
Besides the Devas or Gods, and besides the Pitris or Fathers, there was a third world, without which the ancient religion of India could not have become what we see it in the Veda.
Pitris and Devas had each their independent origin, and that they represent two totally distinct phases of the human mind in the creation of its objects of worship.
Devas; but theDevas and Danavas were born of the Pitris, and the Pitris of the Rishis.
The Devas sprung from the Pitris, because it was usual to apotheosize the dead.
The Devas never become Pitris, and though such adjectives as d e v a are sometimes applied to the Pitris, and they are raised to the rank of the older classes of Devas (Manu III.
I hope, however, I may have succeeded in showing you the entirely new aspect which the old problem of the theogony, or the origin and growth of the Devas or gods, assumes from the light thrown upon it by the Veda.
Originally the Rishis were the poets of the Vedas, seven in number; and we are not told how they came to be placed above the Devas and Pitris.
They are often represented as having gone to the abode of Yama, the ruler of the departed, and to live there in company with some of the Devas (Rig-Veda VII.
Though connected with this earth, the Devas are by no means confined to it, for the whole of our present chain of seven worlds is as one world to them, their evolution being through a grand system of seven chains.
Kamadhenu, the sacred cow of the Puranas, was yielding plenty of milk, which the Devas alone used.
The Devas cut its carcase into four parts, of which they gave one to Adi Jambuvadu.
Footnote 208: Whence it follows that the devas are not personal beings, and therefore not qualified for the knowledge of Brahman.
The internal ruler over the devas and so on (is Brahman), because the attributes of that (Brahman) are designated.
For the devas possess, in consequence of their pre-eminent power, the capability of residing within the light, and so on, and to assume any form they like.
And the devas and saints and all the good spirits of the departed generations that had listened to the sermon of the Tathagata, joyfully received the doctrine and shouted: "Truly, the Blessed One has founded the kingdom of righteousness.
In accordance with this our conclusion we interpret the text 'Air and Ether, this is the Immortal,' as asserting only that air and Ether continue to exist for a long time, as the Devas do.
In the same way the story of the devas and Asuras approaching Prajâpati with fuel in their hands, staying with him as pupils for thirty-two years, &c.
Him the devasmeditate upon as the light of lights, as immortal time' (Bri.
How may residence in the world of the Devas or propitiation of the deities have anything to do with the murder of victims?
Sakra, the Lord of the Devas in the disguise of a Brâhman, knowing the intention of the king, answered: 12.
When the chief of the Devas saw this deed, he was affected with the highest admiration.
Sharp arrows were flying over both armies, and fell down amidst the warriors of both the Devas and the Demons, hitting banners and royal umbrellas, bows and spears, shields and cuirasses, and the heads of men.
But lately this monarch possessed the enjoyments of royalty, being worshipped like the Lord of the Devasby crowds of people revering him with clasped hands.
If thou wishest to give me some boon, that may please me, I ask the foremost of the Devas this boon, 15.
As truly as I do not recollect, however pondering, that I ever did harm to any living being, not even in the highest distress, by the power of this truth may the King of the Devas fill the water-basins with the water of his rains.
Well, the people of this country are protected by a mighty svastyayana, so that even the Lord of the Devas himself has no power over them, how much less the flesh-eating goblins.
This fear of the Lord of the Devas rests on the belief in the transcendent power of penance, which enables great ascetics to aspire even to that dignity.
We are primarily concerned with our own planetary Deva and through Him with the great Devas of the solar system.
Thereupon theDevas had a vision of the ‘silent praise’.
The Asuras performed at the sacrifice all that the Devas performed.
With it the Devas aimed a blow at the Asuras, and defeated them, for they had no comprehension of this weapon.
In one night he translated all the sacred books into a thousand different languages for the use of devas and men, and in one other night he erected a hundred thousand sacred temples all over his dominions.
Of a certainty we shall all be put to death to-morrow," was repeated all through the place, and some cried to the devas and some sat still and wept, speaking only of the relations and friends they would leave behind.
Then she understood that the devas had sent the transformation to satisfy the Khan and his ministers, and, that done, every thing had returned to its natural condition.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "devas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
