Vivasvat
deity figure · 4 works · 24 mentions · 28 anchored passages
Vivasvān · Vivasvant
in the texts
Rigveda
Mythic ancestral figure, father of Manu, to whom Agni was first revealed.
You, O Agni, were first revealed by Mātariśvan to Vivasvat through your power of right action.
Even now the immortal, born of strength, stirs up — the Hotṛ who became the messenger of Vivasvat;
With the eye of Vivasvat, both the sky and the waters—the gods sustained Agni, the giver of wealth.
Sāmaveda
A solar deity/ancestral figure to whom Agni is compared as a bringer of protection and dawn-light.
O Agni, like Vivasvat, the bright reward of the dawns, O immortal, O Jātavedas — bring today the gods to the worshipper, you who rise with the dawn.
O Agni, bring us, like Vivasvat, great aid for our protection;
When the active ones bind at the navel for Vivasvat renewed, then now the prayers go forth toward the gods, as prayers indeed.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Solar figure, father of Yama, whose wife Saraṇyū was concealed by the gods and replaced; invoked both as progenitor of the dead king Yama and as a protector granting long life to the living.
In whose assembly the gods rejoice, in whose dwelling the offspring of Vivasvat sustain themselves—they have placed light in the sun, nights in the moon;
Honor with oblation King Yama, son of Vivasvat, the gatherer of peoples — he who has crossed over the great descending slopes, surveying the path for the many.
I invoke Vivasvat, who is thy father — having sat down on the sacred grass at this sacrifice.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Solar deity, father of Manu Vaivasvata in the genealogy.
From Kaśyapa was born Vivasvān;