Vasus
group · 5 works · 36 mentions · 51 anchored passages
the Vasus · Vasu · bounteous givers
in the texts
Rigveda
The Vasus, a class of deities addressed as fashioners of the sacrificial horse.
From the sun you fashioned the horse, O Vasus.
The divine sacrificial grass, growing, filled with heroes, spread out for wealth, easily borne on this altar, anointed with ghee — let the Vasus, the Viśve Devāḥ, the Ādityas, the worthy of sacrifice, sit upon it.
The Ādityas, Rudras, Vasus, of fair guidance, heaven and earth, the atmosphere — may the gods of one accord protect the sacrifice;
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Class of deities invoked for establishment/shelter and credited with claiming one of the three cosmic vessels.
O Vasus, establish us in the highest domain;
When the gods came distributing the heavenly light, three vessels were the first to exist:
O Vāstoṣpati, grant us shelter here in the thick of the slaying of obstacles, in the assembly of the Vasus;
Āṅgirasa Smṛti
A class of gods said to become satisfied through correct performance of śrāddha-related sacrifices.
By performing the sacrifice that falls on the day of the ancestral rite, all the Vasus, Rudras, and Ādityas, // Ang_1.
It generates the growth of his digit (*kalā* (कला)), and that digit is drunk by them, the ancestors, the Vasus and others.
and the great-grandfather," and likewise those in the form of Vasus and others, joined with their name and *gotra* (गोत्र).
Sāmaveda
A class of gods who receive sacrifice through Agni, alongside the Rudras and Ādityas.
You, O Agni, sacrifice here to the Vasus, to the Rudras, and to the Ādityas.
Manusmṛti
A class of deities identified with the father generation of the ancestors
283[273M] // They call the fathers Vasus, the grandfathers Rudras, and the great-grandfathers Ādityas;