Thirty-three gods
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the thirty-three gods · thirty-three gods · Rudras · Vasus · gods headed by Indra · gods... more than thirty-three · the thirty-three (gods) · Ādityas · Ādityas, Rudras and Vasus
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Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The standard Vedic collective of thirty-three gods, here granting Svapna lordship in heaven.
To that Svapna the thirty-three (gods), having won their way to heaven, granted lordship.
Whose treasure the thirty-three gods always guard — who today knows that treasure which the gods protect?
He in whose limb all thirty-three gods are gathered together — [that Pillar, tell us which one precisely it is].
Rigveda
The traditional collective pantheon of the Vedic gods, enumerated as thirty-three.
The gods who, more than thirty-three, have sat on the sacred grass — they found [it], and also sat down in both [realms].
Having been thus praised, you have been [revealed as] the devourers of enemies — you who are thirty-three, O gods of Manu, worthy of sacrifice.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The divine assembly invoked by Kaikeyī as witnesses to Daśaratha's oath.
"As you swear in due order and grant me the boon — let the thirty-three gods headed by Indra hear that!