Chhaya
Hindu · deity · vedic · Recorded classification
A figure who is literally a cast shadow with a household, children and a will of her own is the strangest thing in this batch, and the tradition treats her as a person throughout. The registry holds her as one, which is the only treatment consistent with what the sources do. Shani's parentIds name her and not Sanjna, because the treatment names her.
Children
Domains
- shadow
Relations
- consort of: SūryaNon-symmetric, as with Sanjna's edge.Reference treatment: Shani is a son of Surya and his wife Chhaya. (secondary)
- cast by: SanjnaReciprocal of the in-batch edge.Reference treatment of Chhaya as the shadow of Sanjna. (secondary)
Sources
- Chhaya is the shadow of Sanjna who takes her place as Surya's wife, and the mother of Shani.: Reference treatments of Chhaya and of Shani. (secondary)