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.
and you Ādityas, be wakeful over him.
may all the Ādityas conduct you hither;
may the Ādityas and all the gods sustain him in the highest divine light.
Sāmaveda
A class of gods (sons of Aditi) named both individually and collectively as recipients of sacrifice.
Āditya, Viṣṇu, Sūrya, Brahmā, and Bṛhaspati —
You, O Agni, sacrifice here to the Vasus, to the Rudras, and to the Ādityas.
For nourishment and vigor, grant us therefore a longer life to live.
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;