Vedic Mythology c5.s1.t3.3

c5.s1.t3.3

He also bears the metronymic Āditya, son of Aditi (1, 50¹². 191⁹; 8, 90¹¹) or Āditeya (10, 88¹¹), but he is elsewhere distinguished from the Ādityas (8, 35¹³⁻¹⁵). His father is Dyaus (10, 37¹). He is god-born (ibid.). The gods raised him who had been hidden in the ocean (10, 72⁷). As a form of Agni he was placed by the gods in heaven (10, 88¹¹). According to another order of ideas he is said to have arisen from the eye of the world-giant Puruṣa (10, 90³). In the AV. (4, 10⁵) the sun (*divākara*) is even described as having sprung from Vṛtra.