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deva

(Sanskrit: “divine”) In the Vedic religion of India, one of many divine powers, roughly divided into sky, air, and earth divinities. During the Vedic period, the gods were divided into two classes, the devas and the asuras. In India the devas gradually came to be more powerful, and the asuras came to be thought of as demons. In the monotheistic systems that emerged by the late Vedic period, the devas were subordinate to one supreme being.


Deva 

a city in western Rumania on the Muresul River. Administrative center of the Hunedoara Region. Population, 36,000 (1969). Deva is a transportation junction. Its industries include food processing (meat-packing and others), clothing, woodworking, and printing enterprises. A major thermoelectric power plant and a large concentrating plant for the treatment of copper ore are located in Deva. First mention of the city dates from the 13th century.



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