Daitya
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Daitya-lords · Daityas
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Viṣṇu Smṛti (Sanskrit) · Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit)
Many thousands of Indras and myriads of Daitya-lords Have been destroyed by time;
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San Hyan Tattvajnana
A class of beings associated with defiant, honor-bound anger, patron of farmers' blades, positioned in the rebirth hierarchy.
The *Daitya* is the patron divinity of the blades that are the implements of farmers, such as a *luke* or a *pṛkul* (types of agricultural blades).
But if the *Bhūta Dĕṅĕn* and the *Daitya* alone meet with the *Daitya*, *Vidyādhara*, and *Devatā*, and they are luminous and great in the *buddhi*, that is the cause of the *ātmā* attaining heaven.
Kriyāśakti means He creates the entire world, and moreover all the hosts of deities.
Viṣṇu Smṛti
A class of powerful demon-lords (asuras) invoked as examples of beings destroyed by the passage of time
Many thousands of Indras and myriads of Daitya-lords Have been destroyed by time;
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The Daityas, descendants of Diti, once rulers of the three worlds until defeated by Viṣṇu; cited as precedent by Prahasta.
"But having slain them in battle, Viṣṇu the supremely powerful brought this imperishable triple world under the dominion of the gods.
"Of the Daityas, O knower of dharma, it is said this city, this earth with its ocean-shores and its mountains — all belonged to them, O hero;
Diti, however, bore the Daityas born of Kaśyapa.