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Hi Ananya, the word devata is used in two senses. One is the adityas in swarg, whose king is Indra. Others are those, who are higher than these adityas. As you quoted from B.G., Arjun says to Krishna
"tvam adidevah purushah puranah"
So Arjun called Krishna as Adi dev. This way even Krishna becomes a dev. But definitely he cannot be put in the same category as Indra and other devtas. I am not saying that you are putting him in the same category. My only argument is that just because the word devta can be used for Vishnu also, we cannot claim that the BG verse according to which devtas are seen in Krishna includes Vishnu also among those devtas because we have to see the context to know correct meaning of a word. Yes Vaman is an Aditya. But he is an incarnation of Vishnu. A claim, which can be made regarding Vaman, cannot necessarily be made regarding original Vishnu.
Anupamaa
