Editing Aditi (section)

== Origin ==
The first mention of Aditi is found in ''[[Rigveda]]'', which is dated by mainstream consensus to have been composed between 1800 and 1200 BCE.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Thomas.|first=Oberlies|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/174616106|title=Das religiöse System des Ṛgveda|date=1998|isbn=3-900271-31-3|oclc=174616106}}</ref> She is portrayed as the mother of the [[Ādityas|Adityas]], a group of societal Rigvedic deities, including [[Varuna]], [[Mitra (Vedic)|Mitra]], [[Aryaman]], [[Daksha]], [[Bhaga]], Amsha, and sometimes [[Surya]] and [[Savitr|Savitar]]. As the mother of the societal deities, she represented the compliance to social behavior. Her motherhood was also an important attribute, and later was expanded so that she became the mother of all deities.<ref name=Jamison-Brereton-2015/>

According to the [[Shatapatha Brahmana]] (a commentary on the [[Yajurveda|Shukla Yajurveda]]), Aditi is also invoked during ritual [[Yajna|sacrificial]] offerings as being synonymous with the Earth:

{{blockquote|<nowiki>'</nowiki>On the navel of the earth I place thee!' And further, 'In the lap of Aditi (the boundless or inviolable earth)!' for when people guard anything very carefully, they commonly say that 'they, as it were, carried it in their lap;' and this is the reason why he says, 'In the lap of Aditi!<nowiki>'</nowiki>|source=Satapatha Bramanda (translator [[Julius Eggeling]], 1882), 1:1:2:23<ref name=Satap-Bram-1882/>}}