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After a great cosmic victory, the Devas grew proud. To humble them, Brahman appeared before them as a mysterious luminous being — a **Yakṣa**. Unable to comprehend it, the Devas di…

… person) that dispenses reward for meritorious deeds. In the Kena Upaniṣad he is the first of the devas to be humbled before Brahman; in the Bhāgavatam his pride is broken by Kṛṣṇa' …

… ire of lightning, and the celestial fire of the sun. In the Kena Upaniṣad, though called Jātavedas ('knower of all born beings'), he cannot burn a single blade of grass without Bra …

… gifting both sons his prodigious speed and strength. In the Kena Upaniṣad, called Mātariśvan, he cannot even blow a single blade of grass away without Brahman's power. In classical …

Indra, Agni, Varuṇa, Sūrya, Vāyu and the other Vedic devas were once celestial sovereigns; in the Purāṇic era they appear subordinate to Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva. Not a replacement …

… *, the striker who releases the rains held by Vṛtra. In the Kena story, the first among devas to be humbled. - **Agni** — fire, the divine messenger who carries every offering (*ha …

Sāyaṇa's 14th-century commentary on a Ṛgvedic hymn to Sūrya states a velocity for sunlight that lands within one percent of the modern value for c — and the 18th verse of the Hanum…

… ā ca smaryate yojanānāṁ sahasre dve dve śate dve ca yojane ekena nimiṣārdhena kramamāṇa namo'stu te‖'It is remembered thus: O you who traverse 2,202 yojanas in half a nimiṣa — salu …

To dissolve the growing pride of the Devas after their cosmic victory over the Asuras, Lord Shiva manifests as a mysterious, all-powerful spirit (Yaksha) to demonstrate that all in…