ID: 901002117 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002117	Record Type: Character/Person

	Savitā (Hindu deity)

Note: Hindu beneficent protector god, he is an agent of all that is mobile and is stationary, upholding the movables and immovable. He is golden armed, beautiful-handed, and golden haired. Savitr disappeared as an independent deity from the Hindu pantheon after the end of the Vedic period. In the pantheon of Vedic Hinduism, son of Kaśyapa by his wife Aditi; one of the gods in the category of Adityas, sons of sovereign principles of the universe.

Names:

	Savitā (Hindu deity) (preferred,English-P,D)
	Savitaṛ (Hindu deity) (English)
	Savitr (Hindu deity) (English)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Hindu iconography> (P)
		........<Hindu characters> (P)
		............Savitā (Hindu deity) (I)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... deity
	.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	role/characteristic is .... guardian deity
	.....(deities, people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	culture/religion is .... Hinduism
	.....(religions (belief systems, cultures), religions and religious concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	originated in .... India
	.....(Asia) (TGN)

Sources:

	Savitā (Hindu deity)
	................Burnett, Hindu Gods and Heroes (1922) 19
	Savitr (Hindu deity)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Burnett, Hindu Gods and Heroes (1922)