Mātariśvan
deity figure · 2 works · 24 mentions · 37 anchored passages
the Purifier
in the texts
Rigveda
Mythic figure credited with first bringing or revealing Agni to Vivasvat.
You, O Agni, were first revealed by Mātariśvan to Vivasvat through your power of right action.
the double-born one, praised like a treasure — Mātariśvan brought this gift to Bhṛgu.
When Mātariśvan, the maintained one, churned him and the white one became the conqueror house by house;
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Wind-associated deity, released by the gods of heaven, and invoked as co-fashioner of the world's protective order.
The one that moves in threes, that converges in threes, that is yoked in threes, that makes four into one — that god Mātariśvan the gods of heaven released abroad.
Whatever the lord of the world, Prajāpati, Mātariśvan, has fashioned for creatures — the intermediate quarters where one dwells, and the cardinal directions — may those many armors be mine.
Indra and Agni, Mitra and Varuṇa, both Heaven and Earth, Mātariśvan, the Aśvins, god Savitṛ, and Bhaga — let all of these smite his mind;