As a deity name
Name 217 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 647 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 311 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
Name 1 of the Surya Sahasranāma — Bhavishya Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
आदित्य · noun · masculine
अदिति के पुत्र · देवता · सूर्य — Śabdasāgara
आदित्य · āditya · s.m.
A certain class of deities (twelve in number), sons of Aditi; a deity (in general); the sun — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 32
आदित्य · masculine
a male given name, Aditya, from Sanskrit
आदित्य · masculine
Aditya, one of various deities, the sons of Aditi and Kashyapa; the sun
Cited formation "आदित्य" is आ- + दित्य: दित्य means "'A son of Diti,' a Daitya, a Titan, a demon", and the prefix आ- forms until; contrary. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(8) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi आदित्य — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit आदित्य (āditya).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
1. āditya (Pāṇ. iv, 1, 85), mfn. belonging to or coming from Aditi, TS. ii, 2, 6, 1; ŚBr. &c.
āditya m. ‘son of Aditi’
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
pl. N. of seven deities of the heavenly sphere, &c.; (the chief is Varuṇa, to whom the N. Āditya is especially applicable; the succeeding five are Mitra, Aryaman, Bhaga, Dakṣa, Aṃś…
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (6)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "āditya" is the vocative of "ādityā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
1. āditya (Pāṇ. iv, 1, 85), mfn. belonging to or coming from Aditi, TS. ii, 2, 6, 1; ŚBr. &c.
āditya m. ‘son of Aditi’
(ās), m. pl. N. of seven deities of the heavenly sphere, RV. ix, 114, 3, &c.; ŚBr. iii, 1, 3, 3 (the chief is Varuṇa, to whom the N. Āditya is especially applicable; the succeeding five are Mitra, Aryaman, Bhaga, Dakṣa, Aṃśa; that of the seventh is probably Sūrya or Savitṛ; as a class of deities they are distinct from the viśve devāḥ, ChUp.; sometimes their number is supposed to be eight, TS.; Sāy.; and in the period of the Brāhmaṇas twelve, as representing the sun in the twelve months of the year, ŚBr. iv, 5, 7, 2, &c.)
N. of a god in general, especially of Sūrya (the sun), RV.; AV.; AitBr.; ŚBr.; Śiś. &c.
N. of Viṣṇu in his Vāmana or dwarf avatāra (as son of Kaśyapa and Aditi), ChUp.
ādityā (ā), f. (?) the sun, VS. iv, 21
Alternative readings
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