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A•dit•ya
(ä′dit yə),USA pronunciation n. [Hinduism.]
- Eastern Religionsone of the Vedic gods, the sons of Aditi. Cf. Asura.
- Sanskrit āditya (or ādityāḥ plural), derivative of aditi a goddess (origin, originally a deified abstraction, literally, the absence of binding)