Aditya
आदित्य ādityaOne of the twelve Adityas, the sovereign, solar sons of the goddess Aditi, one for each month of the year; the luminous, law-keeping class among the thirty-three gods, headed in the Veda by Varuna and Mitra.
Where this term appears
- Devas and Asuras Deities
Diti bears the daityas ; Danu bears the danavas ; Aditi bears the adityas , who are the gods.
- How many gods does Hinduism have? Deities
There are the twelve Adityas , the solar and sovereign deities, associated with the twelve months and with cosmic order.
- Ishta-Devata: Choosing a Personal Deity Deities
The Vedic phrase is trayastrimsha , thirty-three, the classes of deity the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad enumerates: eight Vasus, eleven Rudras, twelve Adityas, and two more.
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
…ield before his final fight with Ravana, it is a hymn to the Sun, the Aditya Hridayam , that the sage Agastya teaches him, and it is with the Sun's name on his lips that he lifts his bow.
- Who is the Goddess? Deities
In Griffith's 1896 translation she opens: "I travel with the Rudras and the Vasus, with the Adityas and All-Gods I wander." (Rigveda 10.125.1) She is not one god among the others.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
It argues that Aditya is called aditya because he belongs to the beginning, and that even Prajapati and Kala were made after him.
- Surya Namaskar: The Sun Salutation Yoga
…ight with Ravana, the sage Agastya teaches him a hymn to the sun, the Aditya Hridayam , and it is with the sun's names on his lips that he lifts his bow.
- The Chola Age and the Temple as Institution History
Vijayalaya's successors, Aditya I and Parantaka I, broke the Pallavas and pushed against the Pandyas; it is to Parantaka's reign, in the early tenth century, that the famous village-democracy inscriptions belon…