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In Hinduism, the Asura are a group of deities, sometimes inaccurately called demons, who were opposed to the devas. They are children of Kasyapa.
The term corresponds to the Zoroastrian word Ahura. In Zoroastrianism the Ahuras are supreme, while the devas are demonic. This observation corroborates with the hypothesis that a single tribe in Central Asia split into two due to cultural differences and went separate ways, both ideologically and geographically, one migrating to India and the other to Persia.
Mitra, Varuna and Vritra are the most well known Asuras.
Asura is also a video game character. See Asura (video game character).
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