Bhaga
deity figure · 3 works · 56 mentions · 97 anchored passages
King Bhaga · fierce Bhaga · king Bhaga · our king Bhaga · the Bountiful Lord
in the texts
Rigveda
God of allotted fortune and share, who keeps his diligent servant free from censure.
We, who are partakers of your portion, Bhaga, would rise up through your aid;
For he who thus has diligently served you, Bhaga, is kept free from censure and without enmity in his hands.
the wondrously mighty one sustained the two world-halves, considering himself like Bhaga in the highest vault.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Deity of fortune and allotment, invoked for battle-luck, for the return of the mind, and listed in the sovereignty hymn.
Sarasvan and Bhaga, and all the gods are under my sway.
May Anumati, may Sarasvatī, may King Bhaga lead him back home.
I invoke Indra, the slayer of Vṛtra, the breaker of strongholds — may we today, through Bhaga's grace, be endowed with fortune.
Sāmaveda
A deity of fortune/allotment used as a point of comparison for devotion to Indra.
As one follows Bhaga, so we follow you, O hero, glorious and the finder of wealth.
May Bhaga's glory find me;
This Soma, Pūṣan, wealth, and Bhaga, flows along purifying himself.