Ādityas
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Rigveda
Collective class of sons of Aditi, named among catalogues of invoked gods.
Indra and Vāyu, Bṛhaspati, Mitra and Agni, Pūṣan and Bhaga, the Ādityas, and the host of Maruts.
Your intoxicating Soma-draughts have come together, along with Indra accompanied by the Maruts, and with the royal Ādityas.
Bring the Ādityas hither, for them we desire.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Group of solar sovereignty deities repeatedly invoked as protectors and guides.
may the Ādityas and all the gods sustain him in the highest divine light.
and you Ādityas, be wakeful over him.
may all the Ādityas conduct you hither;
Sāmaveda
A class of gods (sons of Aditi) named both individually and collectively as recipients of sacrifice.
You, O Agni, sacrifice here to the Vasus, to the Rudras, and to the Ādityas.
Āditya, Viṣṇu, Sūrya, Brahmā, and Bṛhaspati —
Drive away disease, drive away the oppressor of the household, drive away ill will.
Āṅgirasa Smṛti
A class of solar deities named alongside the Vasus and Rudras.
By performing the sacrifice that falls on the day of the ancestral rite, all the Vasus, Rudras, and Ādityas, // Ang_1.
Manusmṛti
A class of solar deities identified with the great-grandfather generation of the ancestors
283[273M] // They call the fathers Vasus, the grandfathers Rudras, and the great-grandfathers Ādityas;