The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c11.99
The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c11.99
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v1.c11.99
Objections to the identification of Visnu with Aditya considered: It has to be admitted that Viṣṇu is not noticed among the Ādityas in the *Ṛgveda* hymns, but there, only seven or eight Ādityas are named, and Viṣṇu, as the last of the twelve, could not expect to find a place among the earlier ones. In the same way, where in the *Mahābhārata* only eleven suns are named, Viṣṇu is excluded, he being the twelfth.