Diti
Aditi and Diti are a pair — the gods descend from one and the asuras from the other, by the same father — and a corpus holding Kashyapa and Aditi without Diti holds a genealogy with one branch cut. That is the most precise statement of this lane's whole finding: the registry's Hindu holdings were a family tree with the losing side pruned.
Parentage
Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.
No parents recorded in the default.
Parentage accounts
Each account is a separate source claim. The parentage and children listed outside these accounts use the recorded default. Selecting an account in the interactive app updates its lineage, descent classification and inherited-power candidates. Linked pedigree accounts are selected together; other records retain their recorded parentage. Claims of ancestry are not proof of biological descent or attested powers.
- Padma Purāṇa 1.6: Dakṣa and Vīriṇī
deity by descent in this account.
- father: DakshaPadma Purāṇa, Sṛṣṭikhaṇḍa 1.6.12–16 and 28–34, Deshpande translation (primary)
- mother: Vīriṇī (Dakṣa’s wife)Padma Purāṇa, Sṛṣṭikhaṇḍa 1.6.12–16 and 28–34, Deshpande translation (primary)
Children
Children in alternative accounts
- Maruts: Viṣṇu Purāṇa 1.21: Diti and KaśyapaViṣṇu Purāṇa 1.21.30–41, McComas Taylor translation (2021) (primary)
Domains
- mother of the daityas
Relations
- consort of: KashyapaNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Kashyapa record. The corpus holds Kashyapa and holds Aditi, the mother of the gods; it did not hold Diti, the mother of their opponents, which is the same one-sided holding as everywhere else in this lane.Reference treatment: Hiranyakashipu and Hiranyaksha were both sons of Rishi Kashyapa and Diti. (secondary)
- mother of: MarutsViṣṇu Purāṇa 1.21.30–41, McComas Taylor translation (2021) (primary)
Sources
- Diti is the wife of Kashyapa and the mother of Hiranyakashipu and Hiranyaksha.: Reference treatment of the birth of Hiranyakashipu and Hiranyaksha. (secondary)