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Entry आदित्य

  1. आदित्यādityaa.Solar, belonging to, or born in, the solar line; आदित्यैर्यदि विग्रहो नृपतिभिर्धन्यं ममैतत्ततो U.6.18.

    [अदितेरपत्यं ण्य ParasmaipadaIV.1.85.]

    1. Solar, belonging to, or born in, the solar line; आदित्यैर्यदि विग्रहो नृपतिभिर्धन्यं ममैतत्ततो Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)6.18.
    2. Devoted to, or originating from, Aditi; आदित्यं चरुं निर्वपेत् Yaj. Ts.2.2.6.1.
    3. Belonging to, or sprung from, the Ādityas.

    Derived forms and compounds

    • -त्यः

      1. A son of Aditi; a god, divinity in general. (The number of Ādityas appears to have been originally seven, of whom Varuṇa is the head, and the name Āditya was restricted to them (देवा आदित्या ये सप्त Rv.9.114.3.). In the time of the Brāhmaṇas, however, the number of Ādityas rose to 12, representing the sun in the 12 months of the year; धाता मित्रोऽर्यमा रुद्रो वरुणः सूर्य एव च । भगो विवस्वान् पूषा च सविता दशमः स्मृतः ॥ एकादशस्तथा त्वष्टा विष्णुर्द्वादश उच्यते ।); आदित्यानामहं विष्णुः Bg.1.21; Ku. 2.24. (These 12 suns are supposed to shine only at the destruction of the universe; Compare Ve.3.8; दग्धुं विश्वं दहनकिरणैर्नोदिता द्वादशार्काः).
      2. The sun; Vāj.4.21.
      3. A name of Viṣṇu in his fifth or dwarf-incarnation; स्वयंभूः शंभुरादित्यः V. Sah.
      4. Name of the Arka plant (Marâthî रुई).

    • -त्यौ

      1. (dual) Name of a constellation, the seventh lunar mansion (पुनर्वसु).
      2. Compound केतुः Name of a son of Dhṛitarāṣtra.
      3. The charioteer of the sun.

    • -चन्द्रौ (dual) the sun and the moon.

    • -दर्शनम् 'Showing the sun' (to a child of 4 months), one of the संस्काराs.

    • -पत्र्यः Name of a plant. (-त्र्यम्) the leaf of the Arka tree.

    • -पर्णिनी a creeping plant with gold-coloured flowers, growing near the bank of water.

    • -पुराणम् Name of an Upapurāṇa.

    • -पुष्पिका red swallow wort (Marâthî शिरदोडी).

    • -बन्धुः Name of Śākyamuni.

    • -भक्ता आदित्ये भक्ता Name of a plant. see अर्कभक्ता.

    • -मण्डलम् the disc or orb of the sun.

    • -व्रतम्

      1. worship of the sun; a व्रत or rite.
      2. Name of a Sāman.

    • -सूनुः 'the son of the sun', Name of Sugrīva, Yama, Saturn, Manu and Karṇa etc.

    In the Gita5·1610·2111·6

    ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः ।

    jñānena tu tadajñānaṁ yeṣāṁ nāśitamātmanaḥ, — Verily, in whom ignorance is destroyed by self-knowledge, in them knowledge lights up like a sun the supreme Self (within them). 5·16
    • आदित्यवत्‌ādityavatthe masculine noun āditya (sun) with the suffix vat having the sense of likeness (like the sun).
    • आदित्यानाम्ādityānāmgenitive plural of the masculine noun āditya (the Adityas:vedic godheads, twelve in number – Dhata, Mitra, Aryama, Indra, Varuna, Amsha, Bhaga, Vivasvan, Pusha, Savita, Tvashta and Vishnu).
    • आदित्यान्‌ādityānaccusative plural of the masculine noun āditya (the Adityas:vedic godheads, twelve in number – Dhata, Mitra, Aryama, Indra, Varuna, Amsha, Bhaga, Vivasvan, Pusha, Savita, Tvashta and Vishnu).
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Headwords under आ

Part 4 of 14 आढ्य – आदिश्All parts
  1. आ – आक्षीलम्
  2. आक्षेप – आङ्गूष
  3. आङ्ग्य – आढकिक
  4. आढ्य – आदिश्
  5. आदिष्ट – आनह्
  6. आनाथ्यम् – आपस्कर
  7. आपस्कारम् – आभिप्लविक
  8. आभिमन्यव – आम्लि
  9. आय – आरुक
  10. आरुच् – आलानम्
  11. आलानिक – आवि
  12. आविक – आश्म
  13. आश्मन – आस्तार
  14. आस्तारक – आह्वे