Rati’s Family Tree

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Family

• Daksha(parent),Prasuti(parent),Aditi(sibling),Diti(sibling),Kadru(sibling),Sati(sibling),Vinata(sibling)— Marriage

  Daksha and Prasuti begot numerous daughters whose marriages shaped the cosmos — Aditi bore the Adityas, Diti the Daityas, Kadru the Nagas, Vinata the eagles, and Rati became goddess of desire, while Sati's union with Shiva would end in self-immolation at her father's ill-fated yajna.

• Kamadeva(spouse)— Marriage

  Kamadeva, the god of desire, and Rati, goddess of passion, are husband and wife — the divine couple whose union embodies the inseparable bond between longing and its fulfillment.

Associated with

• Shiva

  When Shiva's third eye reduced Kamadeva to ash, Rati threw herself upon the cinders in grief so raw that even the ascetic god was moved — he allowed Kama to persist as Ananga, the bodiless one, visible only to Rati.