2. aditi m. (√ ad ), devourer i.e. death, BṛĀrUp.
aditi a. [ na dIyate KaMqyate baDyate bfhattvAt, do-ktic ] Free, not tied; boundless, unlimited, inexhaustible; entire, unbroken; happy, pious (mostly Ved. in all these senses). — tiH [ atti prARijAtaM; ad-itic ] 1 Devourer i. e. death; yadyadevAsfjata tattadattumaDriyata, sarvaM vA attIti tadaditeradititvaM Bṛ. Ār. Up. 2 An epithet of God. — tiH f. [ na dAtuM SaktiH ] 1 Inability to give, poverty. 2 [ dAtuM CettuM ayogyA ] ( a ) The earth. ( b ) The goddess Aditi, mother of the Ādityas, in mythology represented as the mother of gods; see further on. ( c ) Freedom, security; boundlessness, immensity of space ( opp. to the earth). ( d ) Inexhaustible abundance, perfection. ( e ) The lunar mansion called punarvasu . ( f ) Speech; yA prARena saMBavatyaditirdevatAmayI ( SabdAdInAM adanAt aditiH Śaṅkara ). ( g ) A cow. ( h ) Milk; wife (?). — tI ( dual ) Heaven and earth. [ aditi literally means ‘unbounded’, ‘the boundless Heaven,’ or, according to others, ‘the visible infinite, the endless expanse beyond the earth, beyond the clouds, beyond the sky.’ According to Yāska aditiradInA devamAtA , and the verse beginning with aditirdyOH &c. ( pb ) Rv. 1. 89. 16 he interprets by taking aditi to mean adIna i. e. anupakzIRa, na hyezAM kzayosti iti . In the Ṛgveda Aditi is frequently implored ‘for blessings on children and cattle, for protection and for forgiveness’. She is called ‘Devamātā’ being strangely enough represented both as mother and daughter of Dakṣa. She had 8 sons; she approached the gods with 7 and cast away the 8th (Mārtaṇḍa, the sun.) In another place Aditi is addressed as ‘supporter of the sky, sustainer of the earth, sovereign of this world, wife of Viṣṇu’, but in the Mahābhārata, Rāmāyaṇa and Purāṇas, Viṣṇu is said to be the son of Aditi, one of the several daughters of Dakṣa and given in marriage to Kaśyapa by whom she was mother of Viṣṇu in his dwarf incarnation, and also of Indra, and she is called mother of gods and the gods her sons, ‘aditinandanas’; See Dakṣa and Kaśyapa also]. Comp. — jaH, -naMdanaH a god, divine being.
(fem, fem) mother of the gods