1.[39] Apparently he was a god affected most by the Bharadv[=a]ja family (to which is ascribed the sixth book of the Rig Veda) where his worship was extended more broadly.

He seems to have become the special war-god of this family, and is consequently invoked with Indra and the Maruts (though this may have been merely in his rote as sun).

The goats, his steeds, are also an attribute of the Scandinavian war-god Thor (Kaegi, _Rig Veda_, note 210), so that his bucolic character rests more in his goad, food, and plough.
Bhaga is recognized as an [=A]ditya (luminous deity) and was perhaps a sun-god of some class, possibly of all, as the name in Slavic is still kept in the meaning 'god,' literally 'giver.' In the Rig Veda the word means, also, simply god, as in _bhagabhakta_, 'given by gods'; but as a name it is well known, and when thus called Bhaga is still the giver, 'the bestower' _( vidhart[=a])_.

As _bhaga_ is also an epithet of Savitar, the name may not stand for an originally distinct personality.

Bhaga has but one hymn.[40] There is in fact no reason why Bhaga should be regarded as a sun-god, except for the formal identification of him as an [=A]ditya, that is as the son of Aditi (Boundlessness, see below); but neither S[=u]rya nor Savitar is originally an [=A]ditya, and in Iranic _bagha_ is only an epithet of Ormuzd.
HYMNS TO P[=U]SHAN AND BHAGA.
To P[=U]SHAN (vi.