Diti
Sign in to saveDiti () is a daughter of the Prajapati Daksha in Hinduism. She is a wife of the sage Kashyapa and the mother of the demonic race Daityas and the divine group of Marutas.
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- Deity.type
- Hindu
- Deity.consort
- Kashyapa
- Deity.gender
- Female
- Deity.texts
- Puranas, Ramayana, Mahabharata
- Deity.father
- Daksha
- Deity.mother
- Asikni
- Deity.siblings
- Sisters including Aditi, Danu, Kadru, Vinata, Surabhi, Krodha, Muni and Vishva
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- Legend
- Birth of Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakashipu
- Birth of the maruts
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Diti () is a daughter of the Prajapati Daksha in Hinduism. She is a wife of the sage Kashyapa and the mother of the demonic race Daityas and the divine group of Marutas.
== Legend == According to the Puranic scriptures, Diti is one of the sixty daughters of Prajapati Daksha and his wife Asikni. She and her twelve sisters, including Aditi, were married to the sage Kashyapa. Diti is described as the mother of two groups of beings—the Daityas and the Maruts. The most prominent of her sons were Hiranyakashipu, Hiranyaksha, Vajranaka, Arunasura, Raktabija and Surapadman. Diti also had a daughter named Simhika (also known as Holika).