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Aditi
In the Vedas, Aditi (Sanskrit: अदिति "limitless")〔From ''a-'' (privative a) and ''diti'' "bound," which is from the Proto Indo-European root
*''da-'' "to bind."〕 is mother of the gods (''devamatar'') and all twelve zodiacal spirits from whose cosmic matrix the heavenly bodies were born. As celestial mother of every existing form and being, the synthesis of all things, she is associated with space (''akasa'') and with mystic speech (''Vāc''). She may be seen as a feminized form of Brahma and associated with the primal substance (''mulaprakriti'') in Vedanta. She is mentioned nearly 80 times in the Rigveda: the verse "Daksha sprang from Aditi and Aditi from Daksha" is seen by Theosophists as a reference to "the eternal cyclic re-birth of the same divine Essence"〔''The Secret Doctrine'' 2:247n〕 and divine wisdom. In contrast, the Puranas, such as the Shiva Purana and the Bhagavata Purana, suggest that Aditi is wife of sage Kashyap and gave birth to the Adityas such as Indra, Surya, and also Vamana.
== Origin ==
The name is mentioned in Vedas as mother of Surya (Sun) and other celestial bodies or gods Adityas (meaning sons of Aditi).
The first mention of goddess Aditi is found in Rigveda, which is estimated to have been composed roughly during 1700-1100 BC.〔Oberlies (1998:155) gives an estimate of 1100 BC for the youngest hymns in book 10. Estimates for a terminus post quem of the earliest hymns are more uncertain. Oberlies (p. 158) based on 'cumulative evidence' sets wide range of 1700–1100〕
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