सप्तसूर्याः (saptasUryAH)
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Vedic Reference
EnglishSapta Sūryāḥ, the ‘seven suns’ referred to in the Saṃhitās, ^1
are named in the Taittirīya Āraṇyaka^2 as Āroga, Bhrāja,
Paṭara, Pataṅga, Svarṇara, Jyotiṣīmant, and Vibhāsa, but these
occur very rarely even later.^3 Weber at one time^4 thought
that the seven planets (see Graha) were meant by the phrase,
but later he abandoned the idea.^5 Probably the ‘seven rays’
of the Rigveda^6 are meant.
1) Av. xiii. 3, 10
Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā,
xxxvii. 9.
2) i. 7. Cf. the ‘seven tongues’ of
Agni which are mentioned in the Rig-
veda, and each of which later receives
an individual name: Macdonell, Vedic
Mythology, p. 89.
3) Keith, Aitareya Āraṇyaka, 266
Hopkins, Great Epic of India, 475.
4) Indische Studien, 1, 170
2, 238.
5) Ibid., 10, 271, n., where he com-
pares the sapta diśo nānā-sūryāḥ, ‘seven
regions with various suns, ’ of Rv.
ix. 114, 3.
6) Rv. i. 105, 9
viii. 72, 16
Hopkins,
Journal of the American Oriental Society,
16, 277.
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