Sayanacharya on Rig Veda ) remarks that before his rising the sun is called Savitr, but from his rising to his setting, Surya.

It is at least possible, therefore, that in its origin Savitr was not an independent creation, but was an epithet of Surya, but that question is of little importance: the essential feature of the god is not his original basis, but his function as the inspirer or impeller to holy sacrifice: the ritual act is repeatedly said in the Yajurveda to be done ‘ on the instigation of the god Savitr ’.”

God of the Middle Region: Commentator Yaska commenting on the verse where Savitr is attributed with causing rain, regards Savitr as belonging to the middle region ( or atmosphere ) for possessing this ability, adding that the Adityas, who are in heaven, are also called Savitr.

Pusan: Savitr alone is the lord of vivifying power and on account of his movements ( yamabhih ), he becomes Pusan.

Moreover Aditi is thus one of the heirs ( along with Savitr ) of the opening god of the Indoiranians, as she is represented with her head on her two sides, with the two faces looking opposite directions.

Like other gods, Savitr is a supporter of the sky.

The most important of the gods whose names denote an agent in “- tr ” class, is Savitr.

It is probably owing to this epithet and because Savitr ’ s paths are said to be in the atmosphere, that this deity occurs among the gods of the middle region as well as among those of heaven in the Naighantuka.

Asura: Like many other gods, Savitr is mentioned as ‘ asura ’ in many hymns of the Rig veda.

After Ushas appear Aditi, the Primal Sun, the God of Light, first as Savitr, who represents the Divine grace essential for all spiritual success, and then as Mitra, who as the Divine love is considered as a friend of the illumined mind ( Indra ) and his associates ( the other gods ).

But Savitr is also sometimes spoken of as sending to sleep, and must therefore be connected with evening as well as morning.

In the Vedas, numerous hymns are dedicated to Mitra, Varuna, Savitr etc.

Even the Gayatri mantra, which is regarded as one of the most sacred of the Vedic hymns is dedicated to Savitr, one of the principal Ādityas.

Aditya, Agni, Antariksha, Ashwinis, Brahma, Brihaspati, Dishas, Dyaus, Indra, Ganesha, Marutas, Mitra, Mitravaruna, Moordha, Prajapati, Prithvi, Pusha, Rudra, Savitr, Shiva, Soma, Varuna, Vayu, Vishnu, and Vishvedavas.

Savitr ( Sanskrit: stem, nominative singular ) is a solar deity in the Rigveda, and one of the Adityas i. e. off-spring of Vedic deity Aditi.

The Sun before sunrise is called Savitr, and after sunrise until sunset it is called Surya.

Savitr is celebrated in eleven whole hymns of the Rig Veda and in parts of many others, his name being mentioned about 170 times in aggregate.

Savitr disappeared as an independent deity from the Hindu pantheon after the end of the Vedic period, but in modern Hinduism, his name occurs in the well-known Gayatri mantra ( taken from book three of the Rigveda ), which is also known as Savitri because of this.

Savitr is a deity whose name primarily denote an agent, in the form of a noun derived from a root with the agent suffix-tr.

The name of Savitr belongs to a class of Vedic theonyms, with Dhatr, Tratr and Tvastr.

Savitr has golden arms, and is broad-handed or beautiful-handed.

Mighty splendour (“ amati ”) is preeminently attributed to Savitr, and mighty “ golden ” splendour to him only.

Savitr has been attributed to as upholding the movables and immovable, which signifies the maintenance of Dharma.

Savitr is a beneficent God who act as protectors of all beings, who are provident and guard the world of spirits.

Being an Aditya, Savitr is true to the eternal Law and act as the debt exactor.

This, however, cannot be proved beyond doubt: it will for instance always be open to question whether Savitr is really an aspect of the sun, or whether he is god of stimulation who by reason of similarity of nature has been made like to the sun.

Apart from Savitr, other such deities are of rare occurrence in the Rig Veda.

According to Yaska, Sanskrit scholar of the 5th century BCE, who made various attempts to interpret difficult Vedic mythologies in his work Nirukta ( Etymology ) ( 12, 12 ), the time of Savitr ’ s appearance is when darkness has been removed.

Like Surya, Savitr is implored to remove evil dreams and to make men sinless.

In the Sandman universe, however, immortality simply bestows more of the same, for better or worse.

Eight years later, he is made aware of his father's secret identity ; a famous international criminal known as International Criminal 1412: the Phantom Thief, and that he was murdered by a mysterious organization for refusing to aid them in retrieving the Pandora Gem ; a mystical stone said to shed a " tear " during the passing of a particular comet, the consumption of which bestows immortality.

The third is Frikko, who bestows peace and pleasure on mortals.

Freyr was associated with sacral kingship, virility and prosperity, with sunshine and fair weather, and was pictured as a phallic fertility god, Freyr " bestows peace and pleasure on mortals ".

He was received ( as one of 20 distinguished Old Wykehamists ) on 4 May 2011 at the Ad Portas celebration, the highest honour that the College bestows.

All MUSH servers provide a flag that, when set on a player, bestows the ability to view and modify nearly everything in the game's database.

"' That which bestows on everything tragic, its peculiar elevating force '" — he ( Schopenhauer ) says in The World as Will and Representation, Volume II, P. 495 — "' is the discovery that the world, that life, can never give real satisfaction and hence is not worthy of our affection: this constitutes the tragic spirit – it leads to resignation.

Ur-Nammu ( seated ) bestows governorship on Ḫašḫamer, patesi ( high priest ) of Iškun-Sin ( cylinder seal impression, ca.

A feature unique to Carthusian liturgical practice is that the bishop bestows on Carthusian nuns, in the ceremony of their profession, a stole and a maniple.

For his heroics in defeating a Sith ( being the first Jedi in 1, 000 years to do so ), Yoda bestows on Obi-Wan the rank of Jedi Knight, and reluctantly grants him the right to train Anakin.

* Pericles, the ruler of Athens, bestows generous wages on all Athens ' citizens who serve as jurymen on the Heliaia ( the supreme court of Athens ).

It is recovered by a unicorn who bestows it on Random, who is then accepted as the new King.

A Nichiren Shoshu priest, acting as proxy for the High Priest, bestows the Gohonzon on new believers upon their initiation into the faith at a local temple.

Here installation art bestows an unprecedented importance on the observer ’ s inclusion in that which he observes.

The family father, tired with the cramped space at home, may rejoice in taking care of his family in the open air, and feel responsible if the little plot of earth bestows a very special interest upon life. Anna Lindhagen is said to have met Lenin when he passed through Stockholm from the exile in Switzerland on their return trip to Russia after the February Revolution in 1917.

For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Whereas modernist art sought to redeem and sacralize the world, to give life to world ( we might say, following Graff, to give the world back the enchantment that science and the decline of religion had taken away from it ), postmodernist art bestows upon the world a " deathly quality … whose glacéd X-ray elegance mortifies the reified eye of the viewer in a way that would seem to have nothing to do with death or the death obsession or the death anxiety on the level of content " ( ibid .).

The church believes that there are three works of grace ( salvation, sanctification, spirit baptism ) that God bestows on believers often testified by many COGIC saints in this affirmation, " I am saved, sanctified, baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost.

The presentation of this chrism which has received the laying on of hands, together with an antimension is the manner in which a bishop bestows faculties upon a priest under his omophorion ( i. e., under his authority ).

In a letter to James Warren, Adams wrote, " Tell your wife that God Almighty has entrusted her with the Powers for the good of the World, which, in the cause of his Providence, he bestows on few of the human race.

Thus, the second anointing differs from the " first anointing " ( part of the Endowment ceremony ) in that, the first anointing promises blessings in the afterlife contingent on the patron's faithfulness, the Second Anointing actually bestows those blessings.

This is the highest honor the United States Government bestows on artists.

Finally, Peter Wiggin, newly-elected Hegemon, bestows the office of Strategos on Bean.

Johann Georg von Eckhart ( 1664-1730 ) in De orgine Germanorum ( p. 398 ) writes: “ The common people of the Saxons honor Frau Freke, who bestows on them gifts, the same whom the nobles amongst the Saxons reckon as Holda .” In Westphalia, the name of an old convent, Freckenhorst, Frickenhorst points to a sacred hurst or grove of Frecka ( feminine ), or of Fricko ( masculine ) compare Frœcinghyrst.