Nakshatra

Vasu

33 deities

8 ashta vasu

11 ekadas rudra

12 dwadas-aditya

1 praja-pati

1 vashatkara

Vocabulary for Vasu

• Koeln Sanskrit Lexicon

"excellent

• good
• beneficent
• sweet
• dry

name of the gods, as the "good or bright ones" , esp. of

1. the Adityas
2. Maruts
3. Asvins
4. Indra
5. Ushas
6. Rudra
7. Vayu
8. Vishnu
9. Siva
10. and Kubera

of a particular class of gods,

• whose number is usually eight
• and whose chief is Indra, later Agni and Vishnu

they form one of the nine Ganas or classes enumerated under Gana-devata

the eight Vasus were originally personifications, like other Vedic deities, of natural phenomena,

and are usually mentioned with the other Ganas common in the Veda , viz.

the eleven Rudras

and the twelve Adiyas,

constituting with them and with Dyaus "Heaven" and Prithivi, "Earth"

[or , according to some , with Indra and Praja-pati ,

or, according to others, with the two Asvins]

the thirty-three gods to which reference is frequently made

the names of the Vasu, according to the Vishnu-Purana:

1. Apa "water"
2. Dhruva "the Pole-star"
3. Soma "the Moon"
4. Dhava or Dhara "stream"
5. Anila "Wind"
6. Anala or Pavaka "Fire"
7. Pratyusha "the Dawn"
8. Prabhasa "Light"

but their names are variously given: Ahan "Day" being sometimes substituted for 1

in their relationship to Fire and Light, they appear to belong to Vedic rather than Puranic mythology

• a symbolical name of the number "eight"
• a ray of light
• a partic. ray of light (jina)

...

• wealth, goods, riches, property
• the god of wealth or property
• stream of wealth
• gold
• a jewel, gem, pearl
• any valuable or precious object"

Asta-vasu * The Eight Vasu* Basu = Indwelling Ones

Gods of abundance

Basu-daibata = wealth-giver of jewels, precious articles, gold, etc.

the lists of these entities vary considerably according to lineage traditions

1. Agni earth-fire * Anala living

2. Prithvi earth * Dhara-Dhava stream (of water, of goods)

3. Va-yu wind * A-nila wind (a-nila = color-less, dark-less, leader of the 49 winds)

4. Antariksha atmosphere * Aha pervading

5. Aditya eternal no-limits indivisible * Pratyu-sha pre-dawn light

6. Dyaus sky * Prabha-sha shining dawn

7. Chandramas moon * Soma moon

8. Na-kstrani stars * Dhruva motionless (the Polestar)

1. Drona
2. Dhruva
3. Dosha
4. Arka
5. Agni
6. Dyou
7. PraaNa
8. Vibhavasu

Ap * Apah * ruling Water, one of the eight demigods called Vasu

• Aha the Vasu ruling the Atmosphere

Five major ayurvedic elements = Panch-maha-bhuti = akasha, vayu, agni, apah, and prithvi.

• Akasha = "space, astral particles "

• vayu = "simplest matter, gross prana"

• agni = "fire, heat, fusing, radiation"; and

• privthi = "earth, rocks, clay".

Apah = water but not only the normal sense of earth's water.

• Apah = anything without a definite shape or volume,

  • that is moving or transitioning between shapes.

  Apah includes air, winds and waters -- anything in a liquid or gaseous state.

• "Apah" is sometimes translated as "atmosphere".

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