Aryaman
deity figure · 3 works · 43 mentions · 65 anchored passages
Aryamā
in the texts
Rigveda
God of hospitality and custom, grouped with Mitra and Varuṇa as devourer of the wicked.
Let Varuṇa, Mitra, and Aryaman — devourers of the wicked — take their seats on our sacred grass, as befits Manu's descendants.
They guard the mortal man from harm as if with arms upraised;
Easy and thornless is the path, O Ādityas, for him who walks by ṛta;
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Deity of marriage and social bonds invoked to point out and ordain a husband.
May Aryaman stir you, may Pūṣan and Bṛhaspati stir you;
The husband whom Aryaman and Dhātṛ ordained for thee at thy birth — him thou shalt bring hither.
The husband whom thou, O Aryaman, hast pointed out for her — even though he dwells among people — him thou shalt bring hither.
Sāmaveda
A deity of hospitality and kinship, regularly paired with Mitra as guardian of the worshippers.
Sing forth the companionable truth-guarded speech to Mitra and Aryaman;
Let Mitra and Aryaman take their seat on the sacred grass at the sacrifice with those who travel at dawn.
That mortal is truly well-guided whom the Maruts protect, whom Aryaman, Mitra, and Āspā guard from the treacherous.