Vāta
deity figure · 2 works · 7 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Vāyu · Wind
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Rigveda
Wind deity invoked among others for benevolence.
May I turn to the gods — non-hostile Viṣṇu, Vāta, Ṛbhukṣan — seeking their benevolence.
O Agni, what wilt thou say, thriving in thy seats, to Vāta the wide-spread and beautiful?
may the Waters, Vāta, the mountains, the forest lord, and Earth hear the invocation.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The wind-deity Vāta, invoked against serpents and as recipient of a portion of the sacrificial bull.
his tail belonged to the god Vāta — with it he fans the herbs.
Indra has crushed the serpents for me, and Mitra and Varuṇa, and both Vāta and Parjanya.
Vāta is the tail;