Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.3365

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TUṢITAS. There were twelve good devas called Tuṣitas in the Cākṣuṣa Manvantara. When the Cākṣuṣa Man-vantara ended and the Vaivasvata Manvantara com-menced all the twelve were born as sons of Kaśyapa of his wife Aditi. Because they were born of Aditi they were called Dvādaśādityas. They were Viṣṇu etc. Thus the Tuṣitas of the Cākṣuṣa Manvantara were the Dvādaśādityas of Vaivasvata Manvantara. (Viṣṇu Purāṇa, Aṃśa 1, Chapter 15).