search `asura' in `Apte Dic'

meanings of "asura" [1]

a.{a-stem}

1.living;

2.an epithet of Supreme Spirit or varuNa;

3.incorporeal

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meanings of "asura" [2]

m.{a-stem}

1.an evil spirit;

2.a general name for the enemies of gods, daityas and daanavas, distinguished from raakSasas descended from pulastya;

3.a ghost or spectre;

4.the sun;

5.an elephant;

6.an epithet of raahu;

7.a cloud;

8.name of a warrior tribe

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