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chapter II Major goddesses Aditi. Aditi the Vedic goddess is the first of the Vedic Goddess group who has been taken for study. This Vedic maiden who is also a puranic wife and mother, has some likeness in the tantra with Dhumavati the first of the ten knowledge goddesses. The reason for taking up Aditi as the first in the study is that this goddess though is associated with a 'male' as a mother or as a wife she's not dependent on them. She, infact comes to the rescue of her sons especially of Indra etc... who are the great Gods of the Vedic religion. Meanings. The dictionary meaning of Aditi is the earth, the mother of the gods鲁. Another interesting meaning of Aditi is misfortune'. Derivative meanings. Etymologically Aditi is derived from the root 'do' - 'To divide', 'to destruct' (avakhandane) added with a negative prefix 'a' Aditi thus means "whose attribute is not violation or infliction." It can be understood that she who isnot divided, is unbounded and unlimited and could mean the vast limitless earth in the original sense. The Satapatha Br膩hma峁嘺 gives a strange version for Aditi's etymology. It states "Whatever the god death created, he eats 8 TSSED p. 12 9 Apte V.S. The Consise Sanskrit - English Dictionary MLBD 69 63