The Hindu Temple v1.c6.s5.58

v1.c6.s5.58

The remaining divinities in the east are some of the ‘sparkling gods’, the Vasus; they are the activity of the light on earth; they cause the world to abide; others are the forms, under which it abides; cosmic order and Righteousness, Dharma, and Desire, Kāma. The functioning of celestial light (Āditya) and its activity on earth (Vasu) coincide in some of the Padadevatās. Indra, the Āditya, is chief of the Vasus, he is the Vasu of the gods (Ś.B. I. 6. 4. 2); and is the Kṣatra (Ś.B. V. 1. 1. 11), the Regnum on earth. Āditya, Lord of Planets, is necessarily also one of the 8 Vasus (Ś.B. XI. 6. 3. 6). Satya, who is stationed next to him, is Dharma (‘Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra’, XIV. 1. c.) the Order of things; his son is Kāma, Desire, likened to the burning flame of fire (Kāma is Agni; A.V. VI. 36. 3), placed under the name of Bhṛśa (S.S. XIV. 16-17) to the right of Dharma. Antarikṣa, the mid-region, one more of the 8 Vasus (Ś.B. XI. 6. 3. 6), occupies the next position.