Add a couple more to this;
https://www.quora.com/Who-were-the-Dasas-Dasyus-Rakshas-Panis-Asuras-as-mentioned-in-the-Rigveda
Add daitya, danavs in addition to the above.
Quote from Doniger's Origins of Evil:
The opposition between men and gods arises, therefore, not from any sin committed by mankind, but rather from a structural opposition between men and gods, resembling (and often replacing) the opposition between demons and gods. The gods are in competition with men in the post-Vedic period, just as they are in competition with demons in the Vedic period.
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