But when PV Narasimha Rao, a fellow Andhrite, became prime minister in 1991, it consecrated Sathya Sai Baba's position as the most powerful god-man in India.
As the story goes, Durga was created by the most powerful gods in the universe to defeat Mahishasura, a demon who managed to secure a boon that rendered him killable only by a woman.
The largest is called Odin, after the most powerful Norse god, reflecting the size of the jacket.
The name 'Pegasus' and the description 'the most powerful Greek god' both have a sense (and their senses are distinct), but neither has a denotation.
It does affirm that the power of goodness and life is the most powerful force that God has created in the world," he said.
If nothing else, it undercuts what has traditionally been the most powerful argument for God's existence, the "argument from design".
The most powerful words are God's names, the holiest of which, the Tetragrammaton, cannot be uttered; written as YHWH, it is pronounced Adonai, a spoken name like Elohim, Ehyeh, El Shaddai and others used of God in the Hebrew Bible.
The celestial dome was divided into 16 compartments inhabited by the various divinities: major gods to the east, astral and terrestrial divine beings to the south, infernal and inauspicious beings to the west, and the most powerful and mysterious gods of destiny to the north.
The painting, Europa, depicts Jupiter, the most powerful of the gods, in the form of a white bull, and his love for princess Europa.
A striking feature of these developments is that the ideas about the object of worship which seem to have most directly led its devotees to explicit affirmations of monotheism universal sovereignty, omnipotence, and a demand for total devotion are precisely those underlying the three most powerful philosophical arguments for God's unicity.
Worse, to say that God is the wisest or most powerful thing is to imply that God's wisdom or power bears some likeness to ours.
