Danava

(“descendants of Danu”) In Hindu
mythology, the sons of Danu with her
husband, the divine sage Kashyapa.
Kashyapa is the chief of the Prajapatis, a
class of semi-divine beings, and Danu
herself is the daughter of the demigod
Daksha, so their children have divine
blood from both sides of their lineage.
The name Danava is a general term for
all the families of demons (supernatural
beings), or more properly, asuras. The
asuras are powerful divine beings, who
have legitimate interests of their own,
but whose interests often run counter to
those of human beings as well as those
of the gods (devas). Asuras are thus usually opposed to the gods—a sense of
opposition carried by the English word
“demon”—but they are not perceived as
inherently evil.