| 释义 |
‖ deva|ˈdeɪvə|
[Skr. dēva a god, orig. ‘a bright or shining one’ from *div- to shine.]
A god, a divinity; one of the good spirits of Hindu mythology.
1819T. Hope Anast. (1820) III. x. 251 (Stanf.) A palace, a mosque, and a bath, whose architecture, achieved as if by magic, seemed worthy of the Devas. 1834Baboo II. viii. 157 (ibid.) By the Deva, who is enshrined in this temple! 1878Max Müller Orig. Relig. (1891) 280 When the poets of the Veda address the mountains to protect them, when they implore the rivers to yield them water, they may speak of rivers and mountains as devas, but even then, though deva would be more than bright, it would as yet be very far from anything we mean by divine. 1879E. Arnold Lt. Asia i. 2 The Devas knew the signs, and said, ‘Buddha will go again to help the World’. 1888Geldner in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 821 In the older Rig-Veda..a god is spoken of as dêva, but not every dêva is an asura... Asura is ethically the higher conception, deva the lower: deva is the vulgar notion of God, asura is theosophic.
attrib. and Comb.1878M. Haug Religion of Parsis (ed. 2) 287 A vital struggle between the professors of the Deva and those of the Ahura religion. Ibid., The Deva-worshippers combated by the Zoroastrians. |