vivasvat | विवस्वत् | vivasvat
vi/-vasvat | वि/-वस्वत् | or vi-va/svat | वि-व/स्वत् | mfn. shining forth, diffusing light, matutinal (applied to Uṣas Agni &c.; sadane vivasvataḥ | सदने विवस्वतः |, ‘at the seat of Fire’), RV.; VS.; Kāṭh.
vi/-vasvat | वि/-वस्वत् | m. ‘the Brilliant one’, N. of the Sun (sometimes regarded as one of the eight Ādityas or sons of Aditi, his father being Kaśyapa; elsewhere he is said to be a son of Dākṣāyaṇī and Kaśyapa; in epic poetry he is held to be the father of Manu Vaivasvata or, according to another legend, of Manu Sāvarṇi by Sa-varṇā; in RV. x, 17, 1 he is described as the father of Yama Vaivasvata, and in RV. x, 17, 2 as father of the Aśvins by Saraṇyū, and elsewhere as father of both Yama and Yamī, and therefore a kind of parent of the human race), RV. &c. &c.
the Soma priest, RV. ix, 14, 5 &c.
N. of Aruṇa (charioteer of the Sun), W.
of the seventh or present Manu (more properly called Vaivasvata, as son of Vivasvat), RV. viii, 52, 1
N. of a Daitya, MBh.
a god, L.
N. of the author of the hymn, RV. x, 13 (having the patronymic Āditya), Anukr.
N. of the author of a Dharma-śāstra (cf. -smfti | -स्म्फ़्ति |)
vi/-vasvat | वि/-वस्वत् | m. ‘the Brilliant one’, N. of the Sun (sometimes regarded as one of the eight Ādityas or sons of Aditi, his father being Kaśyapa; elsewhere he is said to be a son of Dākṣāyaṇī and Kaśyapa; in epic poetry he is held to be the father of Manu Vaivasvata or, according to another legend, of Manu Sāvarṇi by Sa-varṇā; in RV. x, 17, 1 he is described as the father of Yama Vaivasvata, and in RV. x, 17, 2 as father of the Aśvins by Saraṇyū, and elsewhere as father of both Yama and Yamī, and therefore a kind of parent of the human race), RV. &c. &c.
the Soma priest, RV. ix, 14, 5 &c.
N. of Aruṇa (charioteer of the Sun), W.
of the seventh or present Manu (more properly called Vaivasvata, as son of Vivasvat), RV. viii, 52, 1
N. of a Daitya, MBh.
a god, L.
N. of the author of the hymn, RV. x, 13 (having the patronymic Āditya), Anukr.
N. of the author of a Dharma-śāstra (cf. -smfti | -स्म्फ़्ति |)