Dyuti (Deva of the Tāmasa Manvantara)

Dyuti, “radiance”

Dyuti has other meanings too: see all meanings of Dyuti.

Dyuti is named first among the deva-gaṇas of the Tāmasa manvantara, the age of Tāmasa Manu. He is not Dyuti, the devī-maiden who served Soma at his Rājasūya.

Lomaharshaṇa tells the munis the manvantaras. In the Tāmasa manvantara the saptarshis were Kāvya, Pṛthu, Agni, Jahnu, Dhātā, Kapīvān and Akapīvān. “Here are the deva-gaṇas,” he says, and names them: Dyuti, Tapasya, Sutava, Tapobhūta, Sanātana, Taporati, Akalmāsha, Tanvī and Parantava. “These are the ten told by Vāyu.”

Sources

• Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 5