Asura

Asura (Dewanagari: असुर; ,IAST: Aśura, असुर) dalam mitologi agama Hindu dan Buddha merupakan makhluk yang memiliki kesaktian dan menguasai ilmu gaib tertentu, mirip dengan dewa atau Sura.^[1] Asura merupakan salah satu aspek dalam mitologi India (Hindu-Buddha), sebagaimana dewa, yaksa (makhluk gaib), dan raksasa.^[2]^[3]

^ Wash Edward Hale (1999), Ásura in Early Vedic Religion, Motilal Barnarsidass, ISBN 978-8120800618, pages 2-6
^ Don Handelman (2013), One God, Two Goddesses, Three Studies of South Indian Cosmology, Brill Academic, ISBN 978-9004256156, pages 23-29
^ Wendy Doniger (1988), Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism, Manchester University Press, ISBN 978-0719018664, page 67

[1] Wash Edward Hale (1999), Ásura in Early Vedic Religion, Motilal Barnarsidass, ISBN 978-8120800618, pages 2-6

[2] Don Handelman (2013), One God, Two Goddesses, Three Studies of South Indian Cosmology, Brill Academic, ISBN 978-9004256156, pages 23-29

[3] Wendy Doniger (1988), Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism, Manchester University Press, ISBN 978-0719018664, page 67

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