![]() ![]() He is prayed to convey the departed spirit to where the righteous dwell. His ancient paths in the air are dustless and easy to traverse, on them he is besought to protect his worshippers. Being an Aditya, Savitr is true to the eternal Law and act as the debt exactor. Savitr is a beneficent God who act as protectors of all beings, who are provident and guard the world of spirits. Savitr has been attributed to as upholding the movables and immovable, which signifies the maintenance of Dharma. Like Pusan and Surya, he is lord of that which moves and is stationary. Specifically, Vedic commentator of the 12th century AD, Sayanacharya remarks on Rig veda shloka 1.5.81 that before rising the sun is called Savitr, but from rising to his setting, Surya. As per certain scholars, Savitr is the god of the Sun at Sunrise and Sunset, and has been most often invoked in the latter role in Vedic hymns. A number of beautiful Vedic hymns are invoked in his praise. Savitr is sometimes identified with, and at other times distinguished from, the chief Aditya deity Surya. He has measured out the earthly spaces, he goes to the three bright realms of heaven. He impels the car of the Asvins before dawn. He moves in his golden car, seeing all creatures, on a downward and an upward path. Agni is said to raise his arms like Savitr the Ushas, dawn extends light as Savitr his arms, and Brhaspati is implored to raise hymns of praise as Savitr his arms. The raising of his arms is characteristic, for the action of other gods is compared with it. He raises aloft his strong golden arms, with which he blesses and arouses all beings and which extend to the ends of the earth. Savitr has been described as a beneficent deity. He illumines the air, heaven and earth, the world, the spaces of the earth, the vault of heaven. Such splendour he stretches out or diffuses. Mighty splendour (“amati”) is preeminently attributed to Savitr, and mighty “golden” splendour to him only. His car is drawn by two radiant steeds or by two or more brown, white-footed horses. He has a golden car with a golden pole, which is omni-form, just as he himself is capable of assuming all forms. He is yellow-haired, an attribute shared with Agni and Indra. He is also pleasant tongued or beautiful-tongued, and is once called iron-jawed. He has golden arms, and is broad-handed or beautiful-handed. He is golden-eyed, golden-handed and golden-tongued with all these epithets being peculiar to him as a deity. These names denote these as agent gods, who create, protect, and produce, respectively.Ĭharacterisation and Appearance of Savitr as per VedasĪs per the description available in the Rig veda, Savitr is pre-eminently a golden deity, nearly all his members and his equipment being described by that epithet. The name of Savitr belongs to a class of Vedic gods, with others such as Dhatr, Tratr and Tvastr. , this class does not represent direct abstractions, but appears in each case to be derived from an epithet applied to one or more deities and illustrating a particular aspect of activity or character. Savitr is a deity whose name primarily denote an agent, in the form of a noun derived from a root with the suffix “ -tr”. 2 Characterisation and Appearance of Savitr as per Vedas. ![]()
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