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)
You, O herb, face Soma;
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The sun-god, named as Sūrya and Āditya, invoked as source of radiance, splendor, and wealth.
You, O herb, face Soma;
we invoke Āditya, Viṣṇu, Sūrya, and Brahmaṇaspati.
The rising sun, Āditya, has caused the body's radiance to shine forth.
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.
that Āditya of the thousand rays dispels darkness from the sky —
"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.