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The eight Vasus (I) Heated cosmic bodies, (2) Planets (3) Atmospheres (4) Supertcrrastrial space (5) Suns (6) Rays of ethcral space (7) Satellites (8) Stars.
These are called Vasus (abodes) for the whole group of existences resides in them, for they are abodes of all that lives, moves or exists.
The eleven Rudras are the ten pranas (nervauric forces or vital airs) enlivening the human frame and the eleventh is Aatma (the human spirit).
These are called the Rudras (from root rud to weep) because when they desert the body, it becomes dead and the relations of the dead begin to weep.
The 12 Adityas are the twelve solar months, marking the course of time. They are called Adityas as by their cyclic motion, they produce changes in all objects and hence lapse of the term of existence for each object.
Indra is the all-pervading electricity or force. Prajapati is Yajna (or an active voluntary association of objects on the part of man for the purpose of art or association with other men for purpose of teaching or learning) God is the One Deva Who is Adorable. According to the Vedas, God is the Supreme Lord of all the devas. The Vedas tell us expressly.
-RIG VEDA.
Twelve Ādityas (personified deities) – Mitra, Aryaman, Bhaga, Varuṇa, Dakṣa, Aṃśa, Tvāṣṭṛ, Pūṣan, Vivasvat, Savitṛ, Indra (Śakra), Vishnu.
Eleven Rudras, consisting of: Five abstractions – Ānanda "bliss", Vijñāna "knowledge", Manas "thought", Prāṇa "breath" or "life", Vāc "speech", Five names of Śiva – Īśāna "ruler", Tatpuruṣa "that person", Aghora "not terrible", Vāmadeva "pleasant god", Sadyojāta "born at once"
Ātmā "self"
Eight Vasus (deities of material elements) – Pṛthivī "Earth", Agni "Fire", Antarikṣa "Atmosphere" or "Space", Jal "Water", Vāyu "Wind", Dyauṣ "Sky", Sūrya "Sun", Nakṣatra "Stars", Soma "Moon"
Other sources include the two Aśvins (or Nāsatyas), twin solar deities.
Indra also called Śakra, lord of the gods, is the First of the 33 followed by Agni
Prajāpati "Master of creatures", a creator god.
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