Vasu
वसु vasuOne of the eight Vasus, the Vedic class of elemental deities (of earth, water, fire, wind, sky, sun, moon and stars); one of the three great classes that make up the thirty-three gods.
Where this term appears
- How many gods does Hinduism have? Deities
There are the eight Vasus , deities of the elemental and natural world, earth, water, fire, wind, sky, and the luminaries.
- 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.
- Who is Ganga? Deities
The Mahabharata explains that eight gods called the Vasus, cursed to be born as mortals, had begged Ganga to be their mother and to free them from human life at once.
- Who is the Goddess? Deities
…bharmy aham indrāgnī aham aśvinobhā "I travel with the Rudras and the Vasus, with the Adityas and All-Gods I wander." (Rigveda 10.125.1) — Ṛgveda 10.125.1 · the Devī Sūkta, ṛṣi Vāc Āmbhṛṇī She is not one god am…
- The Types of Tantra Lineages
Vasu in the verse means the Vasus, a group of eight deities, so eight multiplied by eight gives the sixty-four Bhairava divisions.
- The Classes of the Gods Treatise
There are the Vasus , the "good" or "bright" ones, the powers of the material world.
- Jagannātha and Viśvāvasu Treatise
King Indradyumna hears of a deity worshipped in secret in the forest, an image called Nīlamādhava, the blue Mādhava. The worshipper is a Śabara, a forest man, named Viśvāvasu.
- The Book That Was Never Written Treatise
… public-domain translation of 1896: "I travel with the Rudras and the Vasus, with the Adityas and All-Gods I wander.