Wind
deity figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Vāyu · the Wind · Vāta
spoken of as
1 expressionVāyu / Vāta“Wind”1 mention
Rigveda (Sanskrit)
And you, O Wind, are our father, and our brother, and our friend — make us live.
in the texts
Rigveda
Wind deity (Vāyu/Vāta) invoked as guardian, life-giving breath of the gods, and blesser of cattle and health.
And you, O Wind, are our father, and our brother, and our friend — make us live.
That which yonder, O Wind, in your house has been laid up as a store of immortality — from that, grant us life.
Urged by the Wind, he who guards (creation) by his own power — he has nourished creatures and shines widely in manifold ways.
Manusmṛti
Deity of air and movement; model for the king's omnipresent surveillance through spies.
As the Wind moves, having entered all beings, so should he enter everywhere with his spies;
A king should follow the brilliant conduct of Indra, of the Sun, of the Wind, of Yama, of Varuṇa, of the Moon, of Agni, and of the Earth.