Geography/Culture: Hindustani.
Description: {Goddess of leaf-shadow dappled sunlight and the beneficial effects of muted sunlight}.
To Whom Sacred: {shadows}.
Male Associates: consort Surya, god of the sun; sons Sanaiscara, (epithet of the deified planet Saturn) and Manu, (Savarni)

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Double of, and self-created by: Samjna, ----, below.
• Mother of Tapati, T1P1TE, ----, Goddess and Eponym of the River by that name.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.
Male Associates: consorts, the Asvins, Possessed-of-Horses, sons of the submarine fire. Later She was said to be their Mother.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• She is one of the Gnas, Women. Who are linked with Vac, Creative-Word.
• She is also One of the Naksatras, ----, Who are linked with Rohini, Red-One.
• As mother of the Asvins, Possessed-of-Horses, She appears to be the same as Samjna, ----, below.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.
Description: Shapeshifting Goddess of the sun; She Who finding the "fiery power" of Her consort too dazzling to endure retreated to the forest; Matron of craft-workers, especially of those who work in metals.
To Whom Sacred: mare (into which She turned Herself after leaving Surya); leprosy (to which artists who depict the feet of Surya are liable).
Male Associates: consort Surya, the sun God; sons Manu (Vaivasvata) and Yama, He-Who-Curbs, ruler and judge of the dead. In the form of a mare She bore the Asvins and Revanta, merely by sniffing the semen spilt on the ground by Surya who assumed the form of a stallion upon finding Her forest abode.

• Creatress of Her own double Chaya, Shade, above.
• Also called: Saranyu, ----, below.
• Also called Tvastri, , below.
• Mother of Yami, She-Who-Curbs, below.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.
Linguistic Note: The name Erinys, (Who is linked with the multiple Erinyes), is thought by some to be etymologically equivalent to Saranyu.
Description: Goddess of dawn.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Alternate name for Samjna, ----above.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Alternate name for Samjna, ----, above.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.
Linguistic Note: from Sanskrit yam, 'to curb', hence 'cessation, end'. Might there be an etymological connection between Tibetan Yum, with a given meaning of 'Great-Mother', and Sanskrit yam?
Description: Goddess of death.
Male Associate: Her twin brother is Yama, {He-who-Curbs}, god of the dead.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• See also Tibetan Yum, Great-Mother, Who is linked with Prajnaparamita, Wisdom-of-the-Yonder-Shore.