Vāyu
deity figure · 9 works · 81 mentions · 161 anchored passages
also in the atlas: vāyu the idea
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in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Wind deity named among the gods who bestow kingdom and prosperity.
May Varuṇa, Vāyu, and Agni bestow upon us that great kingdom (bṛhad rāṣṭra) worthy of being established.
Vāyu, the herdsman, is the guardian of cattle and of peoples — let this one be the chief, the vanguard at our head.
Whatever of your mind has gone to Vāyu and the mid-region — [that we bring back to you here, for dwelling, for living].
Rigveda
Wind-god invoked at the very start of the Soma-pressing to drink first, alone and jointly with Indra.
We invoke both gods who touch the sky, Indra and Vāyu, to drink of this Soma.
The inspired poets invoke for protection Indra and Vāyu, swift as thought, the thousand-eyed lords of wisdom.
O Vāyu and Indra, you two are keen-minded for the pressed juices, O lords rich in vigour.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The wind god who demands the hundred daughters of Kuśanābha as wives and, refused, breaks their bodies in wrath.
Hearing those words of Vāyu, the tireless one, the hundred maidens laughed them off and then replied.
Seeing them endowed with every virtue and graced with beauty and youth, Vāyu, the all-pervading wind god, spoke these words.
'We are all daughters of Kuśanābha, O best of gods, and we are capable of casting you down from your station;
Sāmaveda
The wind-god, before whom the related hymns are said to stand, and who is asked to bring healing.
The related hymns, pointing toward you, prepared with oblations, have taken their stand in the presence of Vāyu.
May the Wind blow its medicine, bringing peace and joy to our heart — may it extend our life-spans for us.
Purify yourself, accomplishing power, O tawny one, for the gods to drink — exhilaration for the Maruts, for Vāyu.
Manusmṛti
Wind deity, one of the sources of the king's divine essence.
Through his power, he is Agni and he is the Wind, he is the Sun, he is Soma, he is the King of Dharma (Yama);
Having drawn forth eternal particles from Indra, the Wind, Yama, the Sun, from Agni and Varuṇa, and from the Moon and the Lord of Wealth (Kubera).
Having offered the oblations in the fire according to the rule, and at the end having come together with a Ṛc verse, he should offer oblations of ghee to the Wind, Indra, the Guru, and the Fire.
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana
The wind deity, named among the presiding deities of the adhidaivata order.
Brahmā, Rudra, the Moon, Ākāśa, and Vāyu, the Sun, Varuṇa, Indra, and likewise Viṣṇu and Mitra—
Bṛhaspati Smṛti
The wind deity, one of the eight gods whose essence forms the king.
from Soma, Agni, the Sun, the Wind, Indra, the Lord of Wealth, the Lord of Waters, and Yama.
Kunjarakarna Dharmakathana
The wind god, ruler of an abode near the west.
nearby, the abode of Māruta.
Parāśara Smṛti
Wind deity associated with curd in the pañcagavya rite.
Vāyu is declared to be in the curd, Soma in the milk, and the Sun in the clarified butter.