Surya
सूर्य sūryaThe sun, and the sun god; among the oldest deities of the Veda, the visible god (pratyaksha devata), the eye of the world, and the one saluted in Surya Namaskar.
Where this term appears
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
The two lights: Surya and Chandra Two of the nine are not like the others.
- Who is Ganesha? Deities
From around the same horizon comes an image reportedly found in the ruins north of Kabul, grouped with figures of Surya and Shiva.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
Jürgen Hanneder, who published the transcript, summarises the section as the division of the canon of tantras taught by Surya.
- Konark: The Sun Temple Temples
A king and a date The temple was raised in honour of Surya, the sun god, as its presiding deity, and by a king who wanted to honour him at a scale nobody had attempted before.
- Pranayama: Working with the Breath Yoga
Nadi shodhana alternates the nostrils. Surya bhedana favours the solar side.
- Surya Namaskar: The Sun Salutation Yoga
What they are doing is the Surya Namaskar, the Sun Salutation, and it is one of the most performed sequences of movement on the planet.
- The Four Streams of Hinduism Essentials
The Smarta worships five deities together and holds them equal: Ganesha, Devi, Shiva, Vishnu and Surya the sun.
- The Four Yugas: Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali Essentials
The Manusmriti sets it out in the first chapter (1.69-71), and the Vishnu Purana gives the same reckoning in its third chapter (I.3), and the astronomical Surya Siddhanta agrees.