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vivasvat

ví-vasvat or vi-vásvat mfn. shining forth, diffusing light, matutinal (applied to Uṣas Agni &c.; sadane vivasvataḥ, ‘at the seat of Fire’), [RV.]; [VS.]; [Kāṭh.]

ví-vasvat m. ‘the Brilliant one’, N. of the Sun (sometimes regarded as one of the eight Ādityas or sons of Aditi, his father being Kaśyapa; elsewhere he is said to be a son of Dākṣāyaṇī and Kaśyapa; in epic poetry he is held to be the father of Manu Vaivasvata or, according to another legend, of Manu Sāvarṇi by Sa-varṇā; in [RV. x, 17, 1] he is described as the father of Yama Vaivasvata, and in [RV. x, 17, 2] as father of the Aśvins by Saraṇyū, and elsewhere as father of both Yama and Yamī, and therefore a kind of parent of the human race), [RV.] &c. &c.

the Soma priest, [RV. ix, 14, 5] &c.

N. of Aruṇa (charioteer of the Sun), [W.]

of the seventh or present Manu (more properly called Vaivasvata, as son of Vivasvat), [RV. viii, 52, 1]

N. of a Daitya, [MBh.]

a god, [L.]

N. of the author of the hymn, [RV. x, 13] (having the patronymic Āditya), [Anukr.]

N. of the author of a Dharma-śāstra (cf. -smṛti)