Thursday, September 5, 2013

33 crore deities.

Who are the mind boggling and humanely incalculable gods and deities that Hindu's are said to worship?
These gods/deities/devas are actually only 33 in number ,but are at the head of 1 crore devas.
This means that the following devas who are 33 in number have a following of 1 crore each.

The 33 devas are classified under 4 heads .They are as follows--

1.Adityas:They are 12 in number--Indra, Dhatha, Parjanyan, Dwashta, Pusa, Ariyama, Bhagan, Vivasvaan, Vishnu, Amsuman, Varuna and Mitra.

2. Uttaras: They are 11 in all --Mriguyathar, Niruthi, Sarpar, Anajagbhath, Naharaputhinya,Pinaki, Dhana, Ishwar, Kapali,  Stahnu and Bhagar.

3.Vasus:They are 8 in all .They are---Analan, Anilan, Abhachaivan, Soman, Tharan, Dhurupan,.Prathyusan and Prabhasa.

4. Aswins:They are twins .

The total is 33.

It stands to reason that worshipping and praying to seek blessings from any one of these devas or all of them would mean that one would be paying obeisance to all those crores of good atmas or devas over whom the 33 devas --the good and pure one's  preside and therefore the benefit accruing to one from such reverence is equally manifold and incalculable .

Reference is from 'nallayira divyaprabhandam 'by kamala kannan.

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