Aditya

[ ah-dit-yuh ]

/ ˈɑ dɪt yə /

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noun Hinduism.

one of the Vedic gods, the sons of Aditi.

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Origin of Aditya

<Sanskrit āditya (or ādityāḥ plural), derivative of aditi a goddess (originally a deified abstraction, literally, the absence of binding)

Words nearby Aditya

adipsia, Adirondack, Adirondack chair, Adirondack Mountains, adit, Aditya, Adivasi, adj., Adj.A., adjacency, adjacent

How to use Aditya in a sentence

One should next go, O king, to the asylum of Aditya—that illustrious god who is a mass of effulgence.
Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Bk. 3 Pt. 1|Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Well do I know that that exalted son of Aditya resembleth the son of Maheswara himself.
Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Bk. 3 Pt. 1|Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Subjugating them had been easy; the Space Vikings had taken Aditya and made it their home.
A Slave is a Slave|Henry Beam Piper
In either case, too, Aditya would make nobody on any other planet any trouble.
A Slave is a Slave|Henry Beam Piper

Vann Shatrak sent two of the destroyers off to explore the moons of Aditya, of which there were two.
A Slave is a Slave|Henry Beam Piper