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See Loka. The heaven of Indra, the abode of the inferior gods and of beatified mortals, supposed to be situated on Mount Meru. In round numbers, the thirty-three deities. The inferior deities who inhabit Svarga ; a god in general. According to some, the word is allied to svar, heaven; others think it to have sprung from the derivation assigned to asura, and as a-sura is said to signify not agod, sura has come to mean god.
The sky, heaven. In one hymn it is asked, "Which of these two was the first and which the last? How have they been produced?
Who knows? A deity'. The gods are spoken of as thirty-three in number, eleven for each of the three worlds. Infinity'; the boundless heaven as compared with the finite earth ; or, according to M. Müller, "the visible infinite, visible by the naked eye; the endless expanse beyond the earth, beyond the clouds, beyond the sky. On this statement Yaska remarks in the Nirukta : "How can this be possible?
They may have had the same origin ; or, according to the nature of the gods, they may have been born from each other, have derived their substance from one another. The water of life. The term was known to the Vedas, and seems to have been applied to various things offered in sacrifice, but more especially to the Soma juice. They were giants who warred against the gods.
