ASURA does not find its origin in Persian. Asura is a Sanskrit word meaning:- spiritual , incorporeal , divine RV. AV. VS. ; m. a spirit , good spirit , supreme spirit (and more). Asura find its origins starting from Vedic to classic ot modern Sanskrit.
RV= RigaVeda

with love,
biloo_5

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Gunnar Gällmo <gunnargallmo@...> wrote:
--- joseph <jothiko@...> skrev:

> the word Asura certainly found it's origin in the
> persian Ahura,

Or vice versa, or perhaps the two words just have the
same origin in an older, common Indo-Iranian language.
The zoroastrian word for "demon", by the way, is
"daeva" - same as "deva". (On the other hand, the old
Greek "daimons" - from which comes English "demon" -
were not necessarily evil; Socrates had a high regard
for his daimon.)

> logical enough, the enemies god is ones devil.

According to some theory, the daevas and ahuras in
ancient Iranian religion perhaps had the same roles as
the devas en asuras in ancient Indian one to begin
with, but Zoroaster put it all upside down.

In any case, Persian is an Indo-European language, so
it is closer to Pali than to Hebrew.

Gunnar




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