deva-yoni
देवयोनि deva-yoni'Of divine birth', the classical Sanskrit category for the classes of demigods and semi-divine beings; the Amarakosha lists ten: vidyadhara, apsaras, yaksha, rakshasa, gandharva, kinnara, pisacha, guhyaka, siddha and bhuta.
Where this term appears
- The Classes of the Gods Treatise
…here, in a single verse, the tradition simply lists the classes — the deva-yoni , the "kinds of divine birth": the vidyādharas, the apsarases, the yakṣas and rakṣases, the gandharvas and kinnaras, the piśācas, …