Vedic Mythology

Arthur Macdonell's handbook was published as part of the Grundriss der Indo-Arischen Philologie series, and despite its 1897 date it remains the standard descriptive handbook of the individual Vedic gods, including the Adityas, a documented fact about its continued use by later scholars rather than a claim resting on its original publisher. This record states its honest limit plainly: it is a descriptive, not an interpretive or theoretical, handbook, and later scholarship has developed comparative and structural readings of Vedic myth that Macdonell's period predates. Use it for descriptive facts about a specific Vedic deity as this handbook records them; a claim resting on a modern comparative theory of Vedic myth needs a more recent source.