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, bring us, like Vivasvat, great aid for our protection;
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.
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.
May Vivasvant make us free from fear;
Vivasvān stretched it out over the earth.
having shaped her as a fair-winged one, they gave her to Vivasvān.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Solar deity, father of Manu Vaivasvata in the genealogy.
From Kaśyapa was born Vivasvān;