Nirṛti
deity figure · 2 works · 39 mentions · 75 anchored passages
Dissolution · goddess Nirṛti · Ill-will · goddess of ruin/Dissolution · the hard-hitting one
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Goddess of destruction and dissolution from whose bonds and lap the reciter repeatedly seeks release.
let them release me, let them free me from the noose of Varuṇa.
Ye four divine Guardians of the Quarters who stand as sentinels — may they release us from the nooses of Nirṛti, from sin upon sin.
Whether his life-span is spent, or whether he has already passed away, or whether he has been led to the very proximity of death — him I bring back from the lap of Nirṛti;
Rigveda
Goddess/personification of destruction and misfortune, asked to be driven away by Varuṇa.
Drive away Nirṛti far from us;
Let not Nirṛti, the hard-hitting one, slay us again and again;
even my old age let Nirṛti devour.