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Aditya

noun

one of 7 to 12 sons of Aditi; Hindu gods of celestial light

• Hypernyms: ↑Hindu deity

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/ah"dit yeuh/, n. Hinduism.

one of the Vedic gods, the sons of Aditi. Cf. Asura.

[ < Skt aditya (or adityah pl.), deriv. of aditi a goddess (orig. a deified abstraction, lit., the absence of binding)]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.