Vishvakarma- Hindu GodDeity"The Divine Architect"

The Trimming of Surya

Vishvakarma is the divine architect and master craftsman of the gods. In the Rigveda he is identified with Tvastar, the primordial fashioner who shaped the forms of living beings. His name means "maker of all," and every weapon and palace of heaven passed through his hands.

His most personal myth centers on his daughter Sanjna, who married Surya the sun god. Unable to endure her husband's blinding radiance, Sanjna fled and hid in the form of a mare. To reconcile the couple, Vishvakarma placed Surya upon his celestial lathe and trimmed away the excess solar energy. From the luminous shavings he forged Vishnu's Sudarshana Chakra and Shiva's Trishula, surplus light transformed into instruments of cosmic war.

The Vajra of Indra

When the demon Vritra swallowed the world's waters and drought spread across the three worlds, no existing weapon could pierce his hide. The gods turned to the sage Dadhichi, who understood what they needed: his own bones, tempered by a lifetime of tapas into the strongest material in existence. Dadhichi gave up his life willingly. Vishvakarma took the sage's spine and fashioned from it the vajra, Indra's thunderbolt, crackling with the concentrated force of a holy life laid down. Indra split Vritra open with it and released the imprisoned rivers.