tanunapat

Updated: May 1, 2025

For instance, Agni Vaiśvânara—All men's fire—and Agni Tanunapat, which seems to mean son of himself, or fire spontaneously generated, are in a later period treated almost as separate deities. Mâtariśvan is sometimes a name of Agni and sometimes a separate deity who brings Agni to mankind. In the same way the Rig Veda has not one but many solar deities.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1