accadeva
Accadeva is a minimally attested term that appears in a small number of scholarly discussions of South Asian and Southeast Asian religious traditions. Because the term is not widely used in major dictionaries or corpus texts, there is no single, agreed-upon definition. In the contexts where it does appear, accadeva is typically treated as a designation connected to a class of deities, spirits, or protective beings associated with particular locales, families, or occupations. Some passages gloss accadeva as local or household deities that function as guardians or benefactors, while others interpret the term as a transliteration variant of Sanskrit or Prakrit compounds involving deva. The precise scope and nature of accadeva therefore vary by source and region, and different authors may reconstruct different etymologies or social roles. Variant spellings such as Akkadeva or Akkadevas are also encountered in some transliteration schemes, contributing to the term’s ambiguity.
Because of sparse and uneven evidence, references to accadeva often appear in passing rather than as central