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deities she is not obviously associated with some nature phenomenon.
Compared to Usas and P峁泃hivi, her character seems ill defined. She is
virtually featureless physically.
As a mothering presence, Aditi is often asked to guard the one
who petitions her or to provide him or her with wealth, safety, and
abundance (1.94.15). Appropriate to her role as a mother, Aditi is
sometimes associated with or identified as a cow. As a cow she
provides nourishment and as the cosmic cow her milk is identified
with the redemptive, invigourating drink Soma. (1.153.3).
The name Aditi is derived from the root da (to bind or fetter) and
suggests another aspect of her character A a-diti, she is the unbound,
free one, and it is evident in the hymns to her, that she is often called
upon to free the petitioner from different hindrances.
VIII. 19.4, V. 69.3, V. 46.6, VIII. 67.12, VII. 10.4,
Atharvaveda: III. 8.3, 11.1.11, VIII. 47.9, VI. 4.1, X. 72.8.
iv) Saraswati
The close association between natural phenomena and such Vedic
goddesses as U峁�as and P峁泃hivi is also seen in the goddess Saraswati,
who is associated with a particular river. Although scholars have
debated precisely which river she was identified within Vedic times
(The Saraswati river of that period has since disappeared), in the
峁歡veda her most important characteristics are those of a particular
mighty river. Indeed, at times it is not clear whether a goddess or a
river is being praised; many references hail the Saraswati river as a
mighty goddess.