Also 9 soor. [a. Skr. sura (Hindī sur) god, deity.] In Hindu demonology, a good angel or genie.
1795. T. Maurice, Hindostan (1820), I. I. xii. 417. The superior, or northern hemisphere, is the region of delight,… and in it Indra presides with an army of Soors, or good genii. Ibid. (1806), Ind. Antiq., I. 17. The Indian Soors and Assoors, that is the good and evil Genii.
1834. Caunter, Orient. Ann., ix. 115. It was reported that they had been received into the bosom of Siva, among the suras of the supreme paradise.
