Another name of Sūrya, the god of the sun, or the sun personified.

In the Vedas, the name originally meant “child of Aditi” so that in some texts it refers to a group of deities. However, in the Kāraṇḍavyūha it has the later meaning of being synonymous with Surya, the deity of the sun. It was translated into Tibetan simply as the common word for sun.

The sun; the god of the sun; the king identified as Āditya­vardhana of the Śrīkaṇṭha-Sthāṇvīśvara dynasty who ruled in Madhyadeśa in the sixth century ᴄᴇ.

Another name of Sūrya, the god of the sun, or the sun personified.

The deified sun.