Aditi
deity figure · 4 works · 72 mentions · 117 anchored passages
divine Aditi · daughter of the sun · goddess Aditi · mother of gods · mother of heroes · mother of the gods · mother of the Ādityas · the guiltless cow · the solar Aditi
in the texts
Rigveda
Great goddess of boundlessness, mother of the Ādityas, invoked as restorer of kin and witness of release from sin.
Who will give us back to great Aditi, so that I may see my father and my mother?
May he give us back to great Aditi, that I may see my father and my mother.
Then, O son of Aditi, under your ordinance, may we be free of sin before Aditi.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Mother goddess associated with protection, longevity, and progeny.
I call upon the goddess Aditi, mother of heroes — may I stand foremost among those born of the same kind (sajāta).
Heaven is your father, Earth is your mother — let them make for you old-age-death and long life, so that you may live a hundred winters in the lap of Aditi, guarded by in-breath and out-breath.
The scorchings of Indra and the scorchings of Varuṇa — the goddess Aditi shall appease those of yours.
Sāmaveda
Mother goddess of the Ādityas, invoked as protector.
May Aditi with her sons and brothers protect us — our speech that is hard to cross and that is our refuge.
May Mitra and Varuṇa magnify that for us, and Aditi, the River, the Earth, and Heaven.
Then, O Āditya, in your covenant may we be sinless, free for Aditi.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Mother of the gods, invoked as a simile for Kausalyā.
This is Kausalyā, who bore Rāma, that tiger among men who walks with a lion's gait — as Aditi bore the Sustainer Viṣṇu.
From Aditi were born the thirty-three gods, O subduer of foes.
Aditi and Diti, Danu, and also Kālakā,"