Āditya
deity figure · 3 works · 6 mentions · 17 anchored passages
Sūrya · the sun · holy sun god Āditya · the divine Āditya · thousand-rayed one
spoken of as
1 expressionSūrya“Āditya”4 mentions
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit) · Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit)
The rising sun, Āditya, has caused the body's radiance to shine forth.
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The sun-god, named as Sūrya and Āditya, invoked as source of radiance, splendor, and wealth.
The rising sun, Āditya, has caused the body's radiance to shine forth.
O gods — Agni, Indra, Sūrya — grant the waters, cleave the deep reservoir [from broad heaven, from earth, from the atmosphere — for this sovereignty, for the Brahmins through this sacred word, for the offspring, for these, for the herbs:
As great as is the splendour of the sun and of the mighty elephant — that much splendour, O you two Aśvins garlanded with lotus-wreaths, create for me.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Sun god who testified, with Candra, that Sītā was blameless.
"And Candra and Āditya too testified in the presence of all the gods and all the seers, long ago, that the daughter of Janaka was blameless.
"In the midst of these stands the king Meru, the highest of mountains — the mountain to which a boon was granted of old by the gracious Āditya.
"The Ādityas, Vasus, Rudras, and Maruts — all the celestial beings — come at the western twilight to Meru, the highest of mountains,"
Slokantara
The sun god, cited as the foremost of all radiant things.
[Slo_01j§2] As for luminous things, there is none like the radiance of the holy sun god, Āditya.