Definition of Ahura

1. Noun. (Zoroastrianism) title for benevolent deities.

Category relationships: Mazdaism, Zoroastrianism
Generic synonyms: Hindu Deity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ahura

Ahmad
Ahmad Shah Masoud
Ahmadi
Ahmadis
Ahmed
Ahmed Salman Rushdie
Ahmed Zoki Yamani
Ahmedabad
Ahriman
Ahrimanic
Ahti
Ahtna
Ahuehuete
Ahumada-Del Castillo syndrome
Ahuna Vairya
Ahura
Ahura Mazda
Ahvenanmaa
Ahwai
Aicardi's syndrome
Aich's metal
Aichi
Aicken
Aida
Aidan
Aiden
Aidenn
Aides
Aidoneus
Aiea

Literary usage of Ahura

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"ahura Mazda is a pure spirit: His chief attributes are eternity, wisdom, truth, goodness, majesty, power. He is the Creator (datar) of all good ..."

2. Ancient Ideals: A Study of Intellectual and Spiritual Growth from Early by Henry Osborn Taylor (1913)
"But the co-ordination of the evil spirit with ahura is not forever. In the end evil shall be annihilated, and ahura come to all-comprehensive exclusive ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"ahura became the chief or sole deity in Persia; India developed an ... To his people he introduced as their one god ahura Mazda—probably in essence not a ..."

4. Civilization of the Eastern Irānians in Ancient Times: With an Introduction by Wilhelm Geiger, Darab-Dastur Peshotan Sanjana (1885)
"ahura MAZDA is the Ruler and King of the invisible, as well as of the visible ... In His being ahura Mazda is a spirit. His most conspicuous attributes are ..."

5. The Teachings of Zoroaster and the Philosophy of the Parsi Religion by Zoroaster, Shapurji Aspaniarji Kapadia (1905)
"Aye, let us win and conquer long life, O ahura-Mazda ! in Thy grace, and through Thy will may we be powerful. Mayst Thou lay hold on us to help, ..."

6. Sacred Books of the East: Comprising the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta by Epiphanius Wilson, Aśvaghoṣa, Samuel Beal, Friedrich Max Müller, James Darmesteter, George Sale, Dharmaraksha (1900)
"There are still other lands and countries, beautiful and deep, longing and asking for the good, and bright” MYTH OF YIMA Zarathustra asked ahura Mazda :— “0 ..."

7. Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and Progress of the Religion and by John Muir (1872)
"And this conclusion will be confirmed if we adopt the suggestion of Professor "Whitney,210 that ahura-Mazda is a development of Varuna. ..."

8. Avesta: The Religious Books of the Parsees by Arthur Henry Bleeck, Friedrich Spiegel (1864)
"Then answered ahura-Mazda: To Yima,* the beautiful, the owner of a good flock, ... Then brought I forth to him the arms of victory, I who am ahura-Mazda. ..."

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